( August 7, 2026, 9:11 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — Agreeing with the lower court that “an attempt to change the rights of a surviving spouse by a person acting under a Wisconsin grant of a power of attorney” failed because “Wisconsin law required a specific, express grant of power that the power of attorney did not contain,” the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment ruling in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case that meant the roughly $1.2 million proceeds of two pension plans would go to the decedent’s 12 children instead of to his 36 grandchildren....