ACTION ALLIANCE v. LEAVITT

No. 06-5295.

483 F.3d 852 (2007)

ACTION ALLIANCE OF SENIOR CITIZENS, et al., Appellees v. Michael O. LEAVITT, Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alisa B. Klein, Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellant. With her on the briefs were Peter D. Keisler, Assistant Attorney General, Jeffrey A. Taylor, U.S. Attorney, Jeffrey S. Bucholtz, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan F. Cohn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Mark B. Stern, Attorney, Daniel Meron, General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen H. McGuan, Associate General Counsel, and Marcus H. Christ and Lawrence J. Harder, Counsel.

Gill Deford argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were Vicki Gottlich and Patricia B. Nemore.

Bruce B. Vignery, Sarah Lenz Lock, and Michael Schuster were on the brief for amicus curiae American Association of Retired Persons in support of appellees.

Before: GINSBURG, Chief Judge, and TATEL, Circuit Judge, and WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.


Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.

WILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge:

This case involves an effort on behalf of some 230,000 participants in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program to resist—indeed to reverse—the government's efforts to recover payments mistakenly made to those participants. The district court issued an injunction ordering the Secretary of Health and Human...

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