Appeals courts now split on birth control mandate

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Scotus : Appeals courts now split on birth control mandate

By Lyle Denniston on Sep 17, 2015 at 8:13 pm

Enhancing the likelihood that the Supreme Court will soon take up the legality of the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate, a federal appeals court on Thursday differed with six others and temporarily barred the government from enforcing the mandate.

 

That outcome came in two decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

These cases, and seven others already pending at the Supreme Court, are sequels to the Supreme Court’s ruling last year in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores. That case involved a for-profit business, but this new round of cases involves charities and non-profit operators of businesses, colleges, and schools. All have religious objections to some of the contraceptives mandated by the ACA.