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Supreme Court Dodges Ruling on Obamacare Contraception Coverage
Monday, May 16, 2016 10:47 AM

By: REUTERS

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ducked a major ruling on a challenge by Christian nonprofit employers to an Obamacare mandate to provide female workers health insurance covering birth control by sending the cases back to lower courts for further proceedings.

The court unanimously threw out lower court rulings that had favored the Obama administration but did not rule on the merits of the challenge brought by the religious employers, forcing the lower courts to reconsider the dispute.

The justices in previous decisions since 2012 had fended off other major conservative challenges to the law, considered President Barack Obama's signature domestic policy achievement.

The dispute before the justices involved seven consolidated cases focusing on whether nonprofit entities that oppose the contraception mandate on religious grounds can object under a 1993 U.S. law called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to a compromise measure offered by the government.

The justices did not rule on the merits of whether an accommodation crafted by the Obama administration in 2013 to ensure that the employees receive contraception coverage violates their employer's religious rights.

The unsigned decision was announced by Chief Justice John Roberts. The court said it was opting against ruling on the merits in part because of "the gravity of the dispute and the substantial clarification and refinement in the positions of the parties" in recent weeks.

 
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Re: Supreme Court Dodges Ruling on Obamacare Contraception Coverage
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2016, 06:09:17 pm »
Reading @ hot air sounds like the administration is caving.

Best case with Scala's seat unoccupied.
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Re: Supreme Court Dodges Ruling on Obamacare Contraception Coverage
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2016, 10:46:32 pm »
John Roberts wears kneepads. Did anyone really expect anything different.