( November 4, 2026, 8:57 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States was “wrong when it issued and even more clearly wrong today,” group health plans whose claims challenging exactions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Transitional Reinsurance Program (TRP) were dismissed as untimely by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) and whose dismissals were affirmed by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals request the high court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to overrule the precedent holding that the Tucker Act’s six-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional and not subject to equitable tolling....