ERISA Employer Lobby Pleased SCOTUS Moving On Mandate Case

The Supreme Court last week invited the Solicitor General to file a brief expressing the United States’ views on a challenge to a City of Seattle’s so-called ‘play or pay” ordinance, a move welcomed by the lobby that represents self-insured employers who offer health plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) in January had asked the high court to take up the case after the Ninth Circuit found the Seattle law is not...