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24-113 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-08-01 Denied Response Waived affordable-care-act civil-rights-standing-mootness-due-process-janus-v constitutional-rights mootness religious-exemption standing state-actor 1) Is it a proper exercise of discretion for an Appeals Court to sanction raising the bar presented by the elements of standing and mootness to a virt…
24-90 William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated Fourth Circuit 2024-07-29 GVR Amici (3)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status 1. Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria; and 2. Whether West Vir…
22-7885 Antwon Whitten v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2023-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP affordable-care-act civil-rights due-process free-speech standing takings Question not identified.
21-1010 Tracy Nix v. Advanced Urology Institute of Georgia, P.C. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied affordable-care-act civil-rights discrimination-claim effective-communication intentional-discrimination nominal-damages rehabilitation-act spending-clause Whether a discrimination plaintiff who can prove a legal violation is entitled to an award of nominal damages under Spending Clause legislation.
21-379 Texas, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (9) administrative-law affordable-care-act agency-rule medicaid-rates nondelegation-doctrine private-entity rulemaking-authority statute-of-limitations (1) Whether an agency rule delegating rulemaking authority to a private entity violates the nondelegation doctrine. (2) Whether the statute of limita…
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Before an employee may have been deemed to have waived the comprehensive rights, remedies and procedural protections prescribed in civil rights statut…
20-1536 United States v. Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated Federal Circuit 2021-05-04 Denied affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-appropriation health-insurance-exchange implied-remedy money-damages premium-tax-credit premium-tax-credits Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money-damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay…
20-1432 United States v. Maine Community Health Options, et al. Federal Circuit 2021-04-13 Denied affordable-care-act appropriations cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reductions government-liability implied-damages implied-right-of-action premium-tax-credits statutory-interpretation Whether the court of appeals erred in concluding that Congress intended to afford insurers an implied money damages remedy as compensation for CSR pay…
20-1393 William Henry Keehn, II v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response Waived affordable-care-act civil-rights commerce-clause due-process standing taxing-clause Does a district court have authority under Fed. R. Civ. P. 60(b)(4) to recharacterize a district court's Motion when it Challenges a district court's …
20-1374 CVS Pharmacy, Inc., et al. v. John Doe, One, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-03-31 Granted Amici (21)Relisted (2) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-statute civil-rights disability-discrimination disparate-impact health-insurance insurance patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act rehabilitation-act 1. Whether section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and by extension the ACA, provides a disparate-impact cause of action for plaintiffs alleging disabi…
20-1200 Common Ground Healthcare Cooperative, On Behalf of Itself and All Others Similarly Situated v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (1) affordable-care-act contract-law cost-sharing-reduction cost-sharing-reduction-payments government-liability government-obligation mitigation-defense statutory-interpretation May the United States invoke a non-statutory mitigation defense to avoid the unambiguous requirement of section 1402 of the Patient Protection and Aff…
20-1162 Maine Community Health Options, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2021-02-23 Denied Amici (3) affordable-care-act breach-of-contract contract-law contract-law-analogy cost-sharing-reduction government-liability government-obligation shall-pay-command statutory-interpretation Whether the government is required to pay insurers the full amount of the cost-sharing reduction payments required by the unambiguous shall-pay langua…
20-946 John J. Dierlam v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-01-14 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech religious-exemptions rfra 1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p…
20-539 Oregon, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-23 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act healthcare-access medical-ethics patient-provider-communication reproductive-healthcare title-x For fifty years, the federal government has funded family-planning and reproductive healthcare services for low-income and underserved patients throug…
20-429 American Medical Association, et al. v. Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-10-05 Granted Relisted (3) administrative-law affordable-care-act arbitrary-and-capricious family-planning free-speech hhs-rule medical-ethics patient-communication reproductive-health title-x 1. Whether the Rule is arbitrary and capricious. 2. Whether the Rule violates the Title X appropriations act, which requires that "all pregnancy coun…
20-219 Jane Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C. Fifth Circuit 2020-08-25 Judgment Issued CVSGAmici (10)Relisted (3) affordable-care-act antidiscrimination-law civil-rights civil-rights-act compensatory-damages emotional-distress federal-funding rehabilitation-act title-vi Whether the compensatory damages available under Title VI and the statutes that incorporate its remedies include compensation for emotional distress.
19-1415 John J. Dierlam v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-24 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment affordable-care-act civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association healthcare-mandate religious-freedom religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra 1)Do one or more Constitutional violations exist in the ACA? Subsidiary to this question and suggested by the Claims in the Complaint and subsequent p…
19-1053 Little Sisters of the Poor Jeanne Jugan Residence v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-care-act contraception contraceptive-coverage federal-regulation health-insurance health-plans regulatory-authority regulatory-requirement religious-exemption religious-freedom-restoration-act rfra standing Whether the federal government lawfully exempted religious objectors from the regulatory requirement to provide health plans that include contraceptiv…
19-1038 Department of Health and Human Services, et al. v. California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-19 GVR Response WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-law affordable-care-act conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate health-insurance preventive-services religious-freedom-restoration-act Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., to expand the …
19-1019 Texas, et al. v. California, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-02-14 Judgment Issued affordable-care-act affordable-care-act-aca congress congressional-intent constitutional-interpretation due-process health-insurance individual-mandate severability standing tax 1. Whether the unconstitutional individual mandate to purchase minimum essential coverage is severable from the remainder of the ACA. 2. Whether the …
19-841 United States House of Representatives v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) affordable-care-act article-iii article-iii-standing congress-power congressional-authority constitutional-challenge severability standing tax-provision taxation In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012), this Court upheld 26 U.S.C. 5000A, a provision of the Affordable Care…
19-840 California, et al. v. Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-01-03 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Response WaivedRelisted (2) affordable-care-act article-iii-standing congress-power constitutional-challenge due-process minimum-coverage-provision severability standing tax-power taxation 1. Whether the individual and state plaintiffs in this case have established Article III standing to challenge the minimum coverage provision in Secti…
19-454 Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-07 Judgment Issued Amici (1)Relisted (2) administrative-procedure-act affordable-care-act agency-rulemaking conscience-exemption contraceptive-coverage contraceptive-mandate healthcare-mandate nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing statutory-authority 1. Whether the agencies had statutory authority under the ACA and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., to expand t…
19-431 Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-02 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2) administrative-law administrative-rule affordable-care-act contraceptive-coverage injunction intervene nationwide-injunction religious-freedom-restoration-act standing standing-to-appeal Since 2011, federal courts have repeatedly considered whether forcing religious objectors to provide health plans that include contraceptive coverage …
18-8780 John T. Higgins v. Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance First Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied IFP affordable-care-act civil-procedure civil-rights due-process health-care individual-mandate standing Question not identified.
18-1038 Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company, an Illinois Nonprofit Mutual Insurance Corporation v. United States Federal Circuit 2019-02-07 Judgment Issued Relisted (2) affordable-care-act appropriations appropriations-riders government-contracts government-obligations legislative-history money-mandating-statute retroactive-abrogation retroactive-application risk-corridors Whether a temporary cap on appropriations availability from certain specified funding sources may be construed, based on its legislative history, to a…
18-523 W. A. Griffin v. Verizon Communications Inc., et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-19 Denied Response Waived affordable-care-act anti-assignment-clause anti-assignment-clauses assignment-of-benefits civil-rights discrimination federal-financial-assistance good-old-boys-club plan-administration provider-standing section-1557 standing third-party-administrator Whether or not it can be reasonably inferred that plan administrators are liable for discrimination under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act when…