( March 17, 2025, 1:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Responding to a U.S. Supreme Court request regarding to a certiorari petition that asks whether “burden-shifting applies to the element of causation under” part of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, The Home Depot Inc. and related parties argue in a March 14 brief that the challenged ruling was correct, that “the burden of proof makes no difference to the bottom-line result” here and that the issue “is relatively unimportant.”...