Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court denied the government’s petition for a writ of certiorari in United States v. Beer, 12-801. Last October in Beer, an en banc Federal Circuit decided that the Compensation Clause of Article III of the U.S. Constitution prohibited Congress from withholding cost of living adjustments promised to judges in a 1989 law. IPO joined an amicus brief in the Federal Circuit in support of Beer filed by the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Beer and other plaintiffs are current or retired federal judges seeking back pay for cost of living salary adjustments.