The U.S. Supreme Court on June 5 dismissed Labcorp’s attempt to limit participation in a class action in which blind people claimed discrimination because they could not use the company’s self-service kiosks.
The unsigned opinion of the court in Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings v. Davis consists of a single sentence reversing its January decision to take up the case, a move it described as “improvidently granted.”
The Supreme Court did not provide reasons for its new decision. The court may dismiss a case as “improvidently granted” when it decides that it should not have agreed—for whatever reason—to hear the case. The court acted after it heard oral argument in the case on April 29….