The CVS Pharmacy chain dropped a potentially precedent-setting Supreme Court case scheduled to be heard next month in which HIV/AIDS patients claimed the company was discriminating against them by enacting a policy requiring people in need of specialty medications to receive them by mail rather than at a local pharmacy. The case is CVS Pharmacy Inc. v. Doe, court file 20-1374. “Doe” here refers collectively to 5 unnamed respondents who are individuals living with HIV/AIDS and who have employer-sponsored health care plans that allow them to obtain prescription drugs. The case was scheduled for oral argument before the Supreme Court on Dec. 7, but the parties filed a joint stipulation to dismiss on Nov. 11, which the high court granted the next day. CVS is one of the biggest health care companies in the world. It owns pharmacies throughout the United States but also functions as a pharmacy benefit manager …