Delphi salaried retirees are down to their last legal shot in their more than 11-year battle to restore pensions lost when the auto parts maker went bankrupt, the Warren (Mich.) Tribune Chronicle reported. “Our only legal option is to ask for cert (certiorari) at the (U.S.) Supreme Court so that we could get the Supreme Court to hear our case…. We still have until the end of July, I believe, around the end of July to do that. So we’re working on what we are going to do right now,” Chuck Cunningham, legal liaison for the Delphi Salaried Retirees Association, said. But the odds are long for that happening given, according to a U.S. judicial website, just 100 to 150 of the more than 7,000 cases the court is asked to review each year are accepted. The latest blow dealt to the association was at the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. The court rejected a request to review a decision it made in September that sided with a March 2019 decision by a Michigan federal court judge. That judge dismissed the group’s lawsuit over lost retirement funding against the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. The court concluded the “issues raised in the petition were fully considered upon the original submission and decision of the case,” a ruling states.
