The Department of Labor has filed a motion to pause its ongoing legal appeals against district court rulings, due to the change in presidential administrations. This motion temporarily holds pending litigations and responses are no longer needed by Feb. 14, according to the filing on Feb. 11, 2025.
“To allow new DOL officials sufficient time to become familiar with the issues in these cases and determine how they wish to proceed, the government respectfully moves to place these consolidated appeals in abeyance, with status reports due at 60-day intervals,” says the filing.
With the suspension of pending litigation around the fiduciary rule, decisions will be paused for the near future, to allow new agency officials to make their own decisions. Daniel Aronowitz has been nominated as the new assistant secretary of labor for the department that created the fiduciary rule, the Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), and future decisions remain uncertain until
