( October 14, 2026, 8:40 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Overruling the 1985 decision Mason v. Continental Group, Inc. and its progeny “to the extent they hold that” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “requires exhaustion of statutory claims,” the en banc 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 13 reversed dismissal of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) valuation case and remanded to the panel that initially decided the appeal “for any further proceedings that may be necessary.”...