( April 27, 2026, 1:45 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an April 24 docket entry, the U.S. Supreme Court requested a response to a certiorari petition in which a health plan beneficiary argues that Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals precedent from 1995 instituting an “information test” in Employee Retirement Income Security Act documents cases disregards the statute’s text; the petitioner says the high court “is unlikely to receive a cleaner vehicle to resolve a conflict that otherwise permanently entrenches two irreconcilable rules of national plan administration and subverts the uniformity of the federal common law.”...