( December 5, 2024, 10:54 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 4 denied a motion for panel and en banc rehearing of a nonprecedential decision; the motion drew an amicus curiae brief in which the Pension Rights Center argued the that decision “seriously misreads” Gruber v. Hubbard Bert Karle Weber, Inc. and “will be read closely by those who can replicate it as an employer escape hatch from the responsibilities of” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act....