( May 28, 2025, 10:47 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government has responded to a U.S. Supreme Court request for its input on a petition for review of a Multiemployer Pension Plan Amendments Act (MPPAA) withdrawal liability decision, arguing in a May 27 amicus curiae brief that review should be granted to consider a modified question and that the high court should “reject the timing rule of [Nat'l Ret. Fund v. Metz Culinary Mgmt.], which has no sound basis in” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act....