Aarp foundation legal advocacy: amicus cases

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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief 

(PDF)  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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF) 

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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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) Read AARP's

 Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read

AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)

  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF) Decision 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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 READ AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF) & 

Decision (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief 

(PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read

AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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 Read AARP's Amicus Brief (PDF)  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?