| No. 24-304 | |
| Title: | Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, dba Labcorp, Petitioner v. Luke Davis, et al. |
| Docketed: | September 18, 2024 |
| Linked with 23A1050 | |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (22-55873) |
| Decision Date: | February 8, 2024 |
| Rehearing Denied: | April 18, 2024 |
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| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| May 22 2024 | Application (23A1050) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from July 17, 2024 to September 13, 2024, submitted to Justice Kagan. |
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| May 25 2024 | Application (23A1050) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until September 13, 2024. |
| Sep 13 2024 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 18, 2024) |
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| Sep 18 2024 | Waiver of right of respondent Luke Davis, Julian Vargas, and American Council of the Blind, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated to respond filed. |
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| Sep 23 2024 | Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Oct 02 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/18/2024. |
| Oct 07 2024 | Response Requested. (Due November 6, 2024) |
| Oct 08 2024 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 6, 2024 to December 6, 2024, submitted to The Clerk. |
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| Oct 09 2024 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 6, 2024. |
| Dec 06 2024 | Brief of respondents Luke Davis, et al. in opposition filed. |
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| Dec 20 2024 | Reply of petitioner Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings filed. (Distributed) |
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| Dec 24 2024 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2025. |
| Jan 13 2025 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/17/2025. |
| Jan 21 2025 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/24/2025. |
| Jan 24 2025 | Petition GRANTED limited to the following Question: Whether a federal court may 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. Petitioner's brief on the merits is to be filed on or before Wednesday, March 5, 2025. Respondents' brief on the merits is to be filed on or before Monday, March 31, 2025. The reply brief is to be received by the Clerk and served upon opposing counsel on or before 2 p.m., Monday, April 21, 2025. |
| Feb 24 2025 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. |
| Mar 03 2025 | Record requested from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. |
| Mar 05 2025 | Brief of petitioner Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, d/b/a Labcorp filed. |
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| Mar 05 2025 | Joint appendix (2 volumes) filed. (Statement of costs filed) |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Sealed material received electronically from the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and available with the Clerk. The remainder of the record is electronic and is available on PACER. |
| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of United States in support of neither party filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of Washington Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of TechNet filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of Product Liability Advisory Council filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, Inc. filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amici curiae of City of Beverly Hills, California, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Professor William B. Rubenstein, et al. in support of neither party filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Claims Administrators in support of neither party filed. (Distributed) |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Mortgage Bankers Association, et al. filed. |
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| Mar 12 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of Atlantic Legal Foundation filed. |
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| Mar 19 2025 | CIRCULATED |
| Mar 25 2025 | Motion of the Acting Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument filed. |
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| Mar 31 2025 | Brief of respondents Luke Davis, Julian Vargas, and American Council of the Blind, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of AARP, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Lionel Harper, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Nobel Laureate Economist Joseph Stiglitz, et al. filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Civil Procedure and Complex Litigation Law Professors filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of American Antitrust Institute filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Federal Jurisdiction Scholars filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amici curiae of Legal Historians and Scholars of Representative Litigation filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 07 2025 | Amicus brief of National Community Pharmacists Association not accepted for filing. (To be corrected and resubmitted - April 09, 2025) |
| Apr 07 2025 | Brief amicus curiae of National Community Pharmacists Association filed. (Distributed) |
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| Apr 17 2025 | Motion of the Solicitor General for leave to participate in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument GRANTED. |
| Apr 21 2025 | Reply of Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, d/b/a Labcorp submitted. |
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| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| Noel John Francisco Counsel of Record | Jones Day 51 Louisiana Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 NJFRANCISCO@JONESDAY.COM | (202) 879-3939 |
| Party name: Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, d/b/a Labcorp | ||
| Attorneys for Respondents | ||
| Deepak Gupta Counsel of Record | Gupta Wessler LLP 2001 K Street NW Suite 850 North Washington, DC 20006 DEEPAK@GUPTAWESSLER.COM | (202) 888-1741 |
| Party name: Luke Davis, Julian Vargas, and American Council of the Blind, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | ||
| Nicolas Anthony Sansone | Public Citizen Litigation Group 1600 20th Street NW Washington, DC 20009 nsansone@citizen.org | 202-588-1000 |
| Party name: Luke Davis, Julian Vargas, and American Council of the Blind, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | ||
| Benjamin James Sweet | Nye, Stirling, Hale, Miller & Sweet, LLP 101 Pennsylvania Blvd. Suite 2 Pittsburgh, PA 15228 ben@nshmlaw.com | 4128575350 |
| Party name: Luke Davis, Julian Vargas, and American Council of the Blind, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | ||
| Other | ||
| D. John Sauer Counsel of Record | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SUPREMECTBRIEFS@USDOJ.GOV | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States | ||
| Cory L. Andrews Counsel of Record | Washington Legal Foundation 2009 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 CANDREWS@WLF.ORG | 202.588.0302 |
| Party name: Washington Legal Foundation | ||
| Theodore J. Boutrous Jr. Counsel of Record | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 333 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90071 TBOUTROUS@GIBSONDUNN.COM | (213) 229-7000 |
| Party name: TechNet | ||
| Sheridan Lee Caldwell | Horvitz & Levy LLP 505 Sansome Street, Suite 1550 San Francisco, CA 94111 scaldwell@horvitzlevy.com | 4154625600 |
| Party name: The City of Beverly Hills | ||
| Joshua P. Davis Counsel of Record | Berger Montague PC 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 625 San Francisco, CA 94111 jdavis@bm.net | (415) 689-9292 |
| Party name: National Community Pharmacists Association | ||
| Lawrence S. Ebner Counsel of Record | Atlantic Legal Foundation 1701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 200 Washington, DC 20006 lawrence.ebner@atlanticlegal.org | 202-729-6337 |
| Party name: Atlantic Legal Foundation | ||
| David C. Frederick Counsel of Record | Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick, P.L.L.C. 1615 M Street, NW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20036-3209 DFREDERICK@KELLOGGHANSEN.COM | 202-326-7900 |
| Party name: Nobel Laureate Economists Joseph Stiglitz and Daniel McFadden | ||
| Aram Avedis Gavoor Counsel of Record | The George Washington University Law School Administrative Law, Issues, and Appeals Clinic 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 agavoor@law.gwu.edu | 202-994-2505 |
| Party name: National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Legal Center, Inc. | ||
| Hyland Hunt Counsel of Record | Deutsch Hunt PLLC 300 New Jersey Ave. NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20001 HHUNT@DEUTSCHHUNT.COM | 2028686915 |
| Party name: Civil Procedure and Complex Litigation Law Professors | ||
| William McGinley Jay Counsel of Record | Goodwin Procter, LLP 1900 N Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 WJAY@GOODWINLAW.COM | 2023464190 |
| Party name: Mortgage Bankers Association, American Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions, Consumer Data Industry Association, Independent Community Bankers of America | ||
| Andrew John Pincus Counsel of Record | Mayer Brown LLP 1999 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 APINCUS@MAYERBROWN.COM | 202-263-3000 |
| Party name: The Product Liability Advisory Council | ||
| Jeremy Brooks Rosen Counsel of Record | Horvitz & Levy LLP 505 Sansome Street Suite 1550 San Francisco, CA 94111 jrosen@horvitzlevy.com | 415-462-5600 |
| Party name: The City of Beverly Hills | ||
| William B. Rubenstein Counsel of Record | c/o Harvard Law School 1545 Massachusetts Avenue AR323 Cambridge, MA 02138 rubenstein@law.harvard.edu | 617-496-7320 |
| Party name: Professors William B. Rubenstein and Arthur R. Miller | ||
| Justin Reade Sarno | Horvitz & Levy LLP 3601 West Olive Avenue 8th Floor Los Angeles, CA 91505 jsarno@horvitzlevy.com | 818-995-0800 |
| Party name: The City of Beverly Hills | ||
| Brian David Schmalzbach Counsel of Record | McGuireWoods LLP 800 East Canal Street Richmond, VA 23219 bschmalzbach@mcguirewoods.com | 8047754746 |
| Party name: The Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Alliance for Automotive Innovation, American Tort Reform Association, and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America | ||
| John Paul Schnapper-Casteras Counsel of Record | Schnapper-Casteras PLLC 1717 K Street NW Suite 900 Washington, DC 20006 JPSC@SCHNAPPERCASTERAS.COM | (202) 630-3644 |
| Party name: AARP et al. | ||
| Joseph Marc Sellers Counsel of Record | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC 1100 New York Ave NW 8th Floor Washington, DC 20005 jsellers@cohenmilstein.com | (202) 408-4600 |
| Party name: Federal Jurisdiction Scholars | ||
| Jamin Samuel Soderstrom Counsel of Record | Soderstrom Law PC 1 Park Plaza, Suite 600 Irvine, CA 92614 jamin@soderstromlawfirm.com | (949) 667-4700 |
| Party name: Lionel Harper, Daniel Sinclair, Hassan Turner, and Luis Vazquez | ||
| Peter K. Stris Counsel of Record | Stris and Maher LLP 17785 Center Court Dr N Suite 600 Cerritos, CA 90703 PSTRIS@STRIS.COM | 2139956800 |
| Party name: A.B. Data, Ltd.; Angeion Group, LLC; Epiq Class Action & Claims Solutions, Inc. | ||
| Randy M. Stutz Counsel of Record | American Antitrust Institute 1025 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20036 rstutz@antitrustinstitute.org | 2029055420 |
| Party name: American Antitrust Institute | ||
| Daniel Hirotsu Woofter Counsel of Record | Russell & Woofter LLC 1701 Pennsylvania Ave NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20006 dw@russellwoofter.com | 202-240-8433 |
| Party name: Legal Historians and Scholars of Representative Litigation | ||