Ruling on ; The Supreme Court finds that religious rights trump the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act.MATT BYRNE Staff Writer
A 4-4 tie would uphold four appeals court rulings in favor of the administration. But different rules would apply in parts of the country in which another appeals court has sided with the challengers. Wednesday was the sixth anniversary ofPresident Barack Obama's health care overhaul; the case...
The breaking story on the Supreme Court's ruling decision on whether employers can refuse to offer insurance coverage of certain methods of birth control.
and Conestoga Wood lost at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The Supreme Court subsequently agreed to settle the disputed rulings — as it usually does when circuit courts are divided on the validity of a federal law.
In its own brief filed Tuesday evening, the federal government said it might be open to changing its accommodation, but sounded skeptical that such a change would end the conflict, and asked that the court be definitive in its ruling. "A decision requiring a modification to the accommodation,...
“SCOTUS’s decision to hear the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine vs. FDA has not blocked access to mifepristone during the court’s consideration of the case, but today’s arguments indicate that the justices are approaching a final ruling on this baseless case — one that could vastly ...
The Supreme Court delivered a blow to President Obama’s signature healthcare law on Monday, ruling that closely held companies cannot be compelled to offer their employees birth control as part of the law if they object to the provisions on religious grounds. [READ SUPREME COURT RULING.] ...
In a major ruling today, the Supreme Court said that some employers cannot be forced to cover birth control in their health plans if that violates their religious beliefs.JAN CRAWFORD
The US Supreme Court said Tuesday it will take up a case involving a firm seeking to limit the availability of birth control to female employees enrolled in a company health plan on religious grounds.
Their losing streak ended with the 8th Circuit ruling for Iowa’s Dordt College, and the Supreme Court promptly took a bunch of their cases. (Since then, they've lost at an appeals court a seventh time.) Now that Scalia’s death has robbed the plaintiffs of a fifth vote, the nonprofit...