( August 4, 2026, 1:24 PM EDT) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — Saying in part that the key provision a retirement plan sponsor invoked “does not authorize an award of attorney’s fees against counsel,” a South Carolina federal judge on Aug. 3 declined to order the plaintiff’s counsel to pay $1,133,428.61 to cover the legal fees and nontaxable costs the sponsor said it incurred in successfully defending itself against an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case focused on recordkeeping fees....