( May 27, 2026, 1:17 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — As it has several times in recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a certiorari petition that asked it to strike down application of the “effective vindication” doctrine in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case; the dispute concerned use of a half-century-old mortality table to calculate joint and survivor annuities (JSAs), and the decision at issue came from the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals....