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Case Name: Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, d/b/a LabCorp, v. Luke Davis et al.
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Docket: Case No. 24-304
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Decided: April 7, 2025
Case Issues: May a federal court certify a class action pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) when some members of the proposed class lack any Article III injury?
Case Name: Eleanor McGinn v. Broadmead, INC.
Court: US Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit
Docket: Case No. 25-1028
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Decided: March 26, 2025
Case Issues: Does the Fair Housing Act require a retirement community to grant a resident cessation of her meal plan and to waive associated fees as a reasonable accommodation for her disability?
Case Name: Gallagher v. Central Valley School District
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Docket: Case No. 24-2757
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Decided: March 12, 2025
Case Issues: Whether the court erred in properly evaluating the circumstantial evidence presented by the plaintiff to show that an employer’s proffered reason for an adverse employment action is a pretext for age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA).
Case Name: Speerly v. General Motors LLC
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Docket: Case No. 23-1940
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Decided: March 5, 2025
Case Issues: Does overpayment for a defective product provide a plaintiff with Article III standing, and must a plaintiff prove that no reasonable jury could find otherwise in order to establish commonality under Rule 23(a)(2)?
Case Name: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Robert Kennedy, et al.
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Docket: Case No. 24-cv-2968
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Decided: February 26, 2025
Case Issues: Is the Medicare drug price negotiation program authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act Constitutional?
Case Name: Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, et al. v. Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Docket: 24-2092
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Filed: January 22, 2025
Case Issues: Should the Second Circuit affirm the lower court’s decision finding that Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is constitutional?
Case Name: Federal Communications Commission, et al., v. Consumers’ Research, et al. and Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition, et al. v. Consumers’ Research, et al. (consolidated)
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Docket: 24-354
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Filed: January 16, 2025
Case Issues: Whether the Federal Communications Commission’s scheme for administering the Universal Service Fund to provide subsidized access to telecommunications services for low-income and older Americans as well as healthcare facilities in rural areas, is an unconstitutional delegation of congressional authority.
Case Name: Novo Nordisk, Inc., et al. v. Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Docket: Case No. 24-2510
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Filed: December 20, 2024
Case Issues: Should the Third Circuit affirm the lower court’s decision finding that Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is constitutional?
Case Name: Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice, et al. v. U.S. Department of Labor, et al., and American Council of Life Insurers et al. v. U.S. Department of Labor et al.
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Docket: Case Nos. 24-40637 and 24-00163 (consolidated)
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Filed: December 20, 2024
Case Issues: Whether the U.S. Department of Labor’s Retirement Security Rule, which expands who is considered a fiduciary under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, is consistent with the statutory language and a valid exercise of agency authority under the Administrative Procedure Act.
Case Name: Richards v. Eli Lilly
Court: Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Docket: 24-2574
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Filed: December 4, 2024
Case Issues: In a collective action alleging that an employer engaged in age discrimination, can affected employees be given notice and an opportunity to join the case based on the prevailing standard requiring a modest showing that they are similarly situated, or must they satisfy a more challenging burden at the outset of the case?
Case Name: Western States v. Linn County
Court: Oregon Court of Appeals
Docket: 24-cv-06966
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Filed: November 29, 2024
Case Issues: Does the trial court’s decision contravene the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, which require that states pay just compensation to property owners for surplus equity seized to collect a tax debt?
Case Name: Casey Cunningham v. Cornell University
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Docket: 23-1007
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Filed: November 26, 2024
Case Issues: Can a plaintiff assert a prohibited transactions claim under ERISA by alleging that a plan fiduciary engaged in a transaction constituting a furnishing of goods, services, or facilities between the plan and a party in interest, as proscribed by section 1106(a)(1)(C), or must a plaintiff plead additional elements and facts not contained in the statutory text?
Case Name: AHCA v. Becerra
Court: U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Docket: 24-cv-114, 2:24-cv-00171
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Filed: November 25, 2024
Case Issues: Should the Court vacate the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule that establishes mandatory minimum staffing levels for nursing facilities?
Case Name: Stanley v. City of Sanford, FL
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Docket: 23-997
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Filed: September 23, 2024
Case Issues: Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, does a former employee—who was qualified to perform her job and who earned post-employment benefits while employed—lose her right to sue over discrimination with respect to those benefits solely because she no longer holds her job?
Case Name: AstraZeneca v. Becerra
Court: US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Docket: 24-1819
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Filed: September 19, 2024
Case Issues: Should the Third Circuit affirm the lower court’s decision finding that Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is constitutional?
Case Name: Bristol Myers Squibb v. Becerra, Janssen Pharm. v. Becerra
Court: US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Docket: 24-1820, 24-1821
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Filed: September 16, 2024
Case Issues: Should the Third Circuit affirm the lower court’s decision finding that Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is constitutional?
Case Name: United States, et al. v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General, State of Texas, et al.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Docket: Case No. 23-50885
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Filed: August 19, 2024
Case Issues: Does the Texas Election Protection and Integrity Act of 2021 violate the Materiality Provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by requiring absentee voters to place an identification number that matches a number in the state’s error-ridden voter registration database on both the application to vote by mail and the mail-in ballot envelope, when election officials do not use the number to determine who is qualified to vote in Texas?
Case Name: National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies v. HUD
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
Docket: Case No. 23-5275
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Filed: July 10, 2024
Case Issues: Does the disparate impact prohibition expressly apply to home insurance companies’ ratemaking and underwriting practices?
Case Name: Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau v. Consumer Fin. Serv. Assoc.
Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Docket: Case No. 22-448
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Decided: May 16, 2024
Results: The Supreme Court found that the CFPB’s funding structure was constitutional, reversing the Fifth Circuit and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Case Name: Deana Farley v. Lincoln Benefit Life Company
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Docket: Case No. 23-16224
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Filed: April 29, 2024
Case Issues: Did the District Court correctly grant class certification for declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(b)(2) for a class of nearly 40,000 life insurance policyholders whose policies did not lapse because Lincoln Benefit Life Ins. Co. failed to provide them with statutorily required annual notices of their right to designate a third party to receive notice of a missed payment, failed to give them a 60 day grace period to pay the premium, failed to send notice within 30 days of the missed payment, and to send notice of termination at least 30 days prior to terminating a policy?
Case Name: Poe v. Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Docket: Case No. 23-3124 & 23-3243
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Filed: March 15, 2024
Case Issues: For purposes of Rule 23(a)(3) typicality and Rule 23(b)(3) predominance, do California Insurance Code §§ 10113.71 and 10113.72 impose a causation requirement for a putative class of life insurance beneficiaries raising individual issues defeating class certification?
Case Name: Novo Nordisk Inc., et al. v. Xavier Becerra, et al.
Court: United States District Court District Of New Jersey
Docket: Case No. 3:23-CV-20814-ZNQ-JBD
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Filed: February 5, 2024
Case Issues: In considering cross-motions for summary judgment, should the Court declare that the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is unconstitutional and stop the government from implementing the law?
Case Name: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation v. Xavier Becerra, et al.
Court: United States District Court District Of New Jersey
Docket: Case No. 3:23-cv-14221-ZNQ-DEA
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Filed: January 23, 2024
Case Issues: In considering cross-motions for summary judgment, should the Court declare that the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is unconstitutional and stop the government from implementing the law?