Supreme Court justice halts birth control mandate in Affordable Care Act

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NY Daily News:

Justice Sonia Sotomayors decision came Tuesday night after a different effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation. Those groups rushed to the federal courts to stop Wednesdays start of portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

12/31/13

 

WASHINGTON A Supreme Court justice has blocked implementation of portions of President Barack Obamas health care law that would have forced some religion-affiliated organizations to provide health insurance for employees that includes birth control.

 

Justice Sonia Sotomayors decision came Tuesday night after a different effort by Catholic-affiliated groups from around the nation. Those groups rushed to the federal courts to stop Wednesdays start of portions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.

 

Sotomayor acted on a request from an order of Catholic nuns in Colorado, whose request for a stay had been denied by the lower courts.

 

Sotomayor is giving the government until Friday morning to respond to her decision.

 

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[Valin]

OTOH........

 

Judge rejects Notre Dame bid for injunction on contraception coverage

Dave Stafford

Dec 27, 2013

 

 

A federal judge denied the University of Notre Dame’s request for an injunction blocking the “contraception mandate” in the Affordable Care Act that requires employers to provide insurance coverage for birth control.

 

“While the interests for and against injunction are very closely balanced, I find that the low likelihood of Notre Dame’s success on the merits tips the sliding scale towards denial of the preliminary injunction,” wrote Chief Judge Philip P. Simon of the District Court for the Northern District of Indiana in South Bend.

 

Simon ruled Friday in University of Notre Dame v. Kathleen Sebelius, et al., 3:13-CV-1276.

 

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