Maine Community Health Options v. United States
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| Docket No. | Argument | Opinion | Vote | Author | Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18-1023 | Dec 10, 2019 | Apr 27, 2020 | 8-1 | Sotomayor | OT 2019 |
Holding: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act"s now expired "Risk Corridors" statute"which set a formula for calculating payments to healthcare insurers for unexpectedly unprofitable plans during the first three years of online insurance marketplaces"created a government obligation to pay insurers the full amount of their computed losses; and the petitioners properly relied on the Tucker Act to sue for damages in the Court of Federal Claims.
Judgment: Reversed and remanded, 8-1, in an opinion by Justice Sotomayor on April 27, 2020. Justices Thomas and Gorsuch joined the court's opinion except for Part III-C. Justice Alito filed a dissenting opinion.
SCOTUSblog Coverage
- Live blog of orders and opinions (Update: Completed) (Kalvis Golde, April 27, 2020)
- Opinion analysis: Decisive win for health insurers seeking compensation for ACA losses (Amy Howe, April 27, 2020)
- Argument analysis: Justices appear sympathetic to insurers in dispute over risk-corridor compensation (Amy Howe, December 10, 2019)
- Argument preview: Justices to consider Affordable Care Act, risk corridors and implied repeals (Amy Howe, December 4, 2019)
- Relist Watch (John Elwood, October 9, 2019)
- Justices bulk up next terms docket (Amy Howe, June 24, 2019)
- Relist Watch (John Elwood, June 20, 2019)
- Petitions of the week (Aurora Barnes, March 8, 2019)
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
|---|---|
| 02/04/2019 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due March 8, 2019) |
| 02/22/2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Maine Community Health Options |
| 02/25/2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 8, 2019 to April 8, 2019, submitted to The Clerk. |
| 02/27/2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including April 8, 2019. |
| 03/08/2019 | Brief amici curiae of Economists filed. VIDED. |
| 03/08/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association filed. VIDED. |
| 03/29/2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 8, 2019 to May 8, 2019, submitted to The Clerk. |
| 04/01/2019 | Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 8, 2019. |
| 05/08/2019 | Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed. VIDED. |
| 05/22/2019 | Reply of petitioner Maine Community Health Options filed. |
| 05/28/2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2019. |
| 06/17/2019 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/20/2019. |
| 06/24/2019 | Petition GRANTED. The petitions for writs of certiorari in No. 18-1028 and No. 18-1038 are granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED. |
| 06/24/2019 | Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 18-1023. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 18-1023. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.” (July 17, 2019) |
| 06/28/2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Maine Community Health Options |
| 07/12/2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Moda Health Plan, Inc. |
| 07/17/2019 | Joint motion of the parties for an extension of time to file the briefs on the merits filed. VIDED. |
| 07/17/2019 | Joint motion of the parties to extend the time to file the briefs on the merits granted. The time to file the joint appendix and petitioners' briefs on the merits is extended to and including August 30, 2019. The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including October 21, 2019. VIDED. |
| 07/30/2019 | Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners. VIDED. |
| 08/16/2019 | Blanket Consent filed by Petitioner, Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Compan, and Illinois Nonprofit Insurance Corporation |
| 08/30/2019 | Brief of petitioner Maine Community Health Options filed. |
| 08/30/2019 | Brief of petitioner Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company filed. VIDED. |
| 08/30/2019 | Brief of petitioners Moda Health Plan, Inc., and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina filed (in 18-1028). |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of America's Health Insurance Plans filed. VIDED |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America filed (in 18-1028). |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amici curiae of Highmark Inc., et al. filed. VIDED. |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association filed. VIDED. |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of National Association of Insurance Commissioners filed. VIDED. |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amici curiae of 24 States and the District of Columbia filed. VIDED. |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Association for Community Affiliated Plans filed. VIDED |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amici curiae of Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation and WPS Health Plan, Inc. filed. VIDED. |
| 09/06/2019 | Brief amici curiae of Economists and Professors M. Kate Bundorf, et al. filed. VIDED |
| 09/13/2019 | SET FOR ARGUMENT on Tuesday, December 10, 2019. VIDED. |
| 10/07/2019 | Motion to dispense with printing the joint appendix filed by petitioners GRANTED. VIDED. |
| 10/21/2019 | Brief of respondent United States filed. VIDED. |
| 10/23/2019 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit. |
| 10/25/2019 | CIRCULATED |
| 10/25/2019 | Brief amicus curiae of Americans for Prosperity filed. VIDED. (Distributed) |
| 10/25/2019 | Motion for enlargement of time for oral argument and for divided argument filed by petitioners. VIDED. |
| 11/05/2019 | Record from the U.S.C.A. Federal Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer. |
| 11/12/2019 | Motion for enlargement of time for oral argument and for divided argument DENIED. VIDED. |
| 11/19/2019 | Reply of petitioner Maine Community Health Options filed (in 18-1023). (Distributed) |
| 11/20/2019 | Reply of petitioner Moda Health Plan, Inc. filed (in 18-1028). (Distributed) |
| 11/20/2019 | Reply of petitioner Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company filed. VIDED. (Distributed) |
| 12/10/2019 | Argued. For petitioners: Paul D. Clement, Washington, D. C. For respondent: Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. VIDED. |
| 04/27/2020 | Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan, and Kavanaugh, JJ., joined, and in which Thomas and Gorsuch, JJ., joined as to all but Part III–C. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion. VIDED. |
| 05/29/2020 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |