Court to decide whether religious challenge to health care law may proceed

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McClatchy:

 

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2012

Court to decide whether religious challenge to health care law may proceed

 

By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — Federal judges on Friday seriously entertained ways to revive a religious liberty lawsuit that North Carolina’s Belmont Abbey College filed against the Obama administration’s signature health care law.

In a closely watched and occasionally electrifying oral argument, members of a powerful three-judge appellate panel suggested they might restore Belmont Abbey’s legal challenge but keep it dormant until the administration issues final new health care rules.

A compromise of sorts, this would keep the lawsuit alive before a trial judge who’d previously dismissed it as premature.

“It doesn’t decide the case,” Judge Merrick Garland suggested, “but it holds on to the case.”

 

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