ERISA Forfeiture Dismissal Appeals Update: Oral Argument And DOL Briefs

( March 2, 2026, 8:10 AM EST) -- Appellate courts have yet to weigh in on the wave of putative class Employee Retirement Income Security Act challenges to a common use of forfeited nonvested matching retirement contributions, but the U.S. Department of Labor has filed amicus curiae briefs supporting affirmance in four of the 10 pending appeals of rulings dismissing such cases, and the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has scheduled oral argument for March 18 in one of those appeals....