( August 17, 2026, 12:28 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 17 order list, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. government’s motion for leave to participate in oral argument and for divided argument in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case that the court is scheduled to hear Oct. 6; the government is among the amici curiae urging affirmance that a putative class suit challenging purportedly underperforming retirement plan investments in hedge funds and private equity was correctly dismissed for failure to allege a “meaningful benchmark.”...