( May 7, 2026, 8:00 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to deny certiorari regarding a ruling that retirees’ attempt to get federal compensation for cuts made to their vested pension benefits failed because the Multiemployer Pension Reform Act of 2014 (MPRA) “was not a physical taking and plaintiffs did not prove it was a regulatory taking,” the government argued in part that the petitioners “fail to identify any conflict in the lower courts on the question presented” and rely “on a series of inapposite circuit and state-court cases, none of which arose in the” context of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “or addressed an analogous claim.”...