Shaoming Song v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
1. Whether, or under what circumstance, a six-year concealed fraud in a federal agency's official personnel action allegedly violated the Age Discrimination Employment Act (ADEA) can be a part of government interest and thereby be protected by departure from accepted and usual course of judicial procedures.
2. Can the "Plausibility Pleading Standard" enunciated in Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007) and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 556 U.S. 662 (2009) become a new defence of a fraudulent concealment?
3. Under the "Doctrine of Stare Decisis" and after Babb v. Wilkie, 589 U.S. ___, 140 S. Ct. 1168 (2020), whether the 29 U.S.C. § 623(a) and its "but-for-causation" phrase can be continually applying to a federal-sector ADEA claim, thereby nullified the "free from any" phrase of the 29 U.S.C. § 633(a).
Whether a six-year concealed fraud in a federal agency's personnel action can be protected from judicial procedures