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SCOTUS Expands Exemptions to ACA Contraceptive Mandate For Employers With Moral or Religious Oppositions
By Alan H. Bowie, Jr., Nick Zaino, Mark Williams
On July 8, 2020, the United States Supreme Court (“SCOTUS”) held in a 7-2 decision that employers may exclude birth control from their health care plans if they have moral…
Religion Clause
Supreme Court Upholds Expanded Exemptions From ACA Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
In a 7-2 decision in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, (Sup. Ct., July 8, 2020), the U.S. Supreme Court rejected challenges to the Trump…
The Faculty Lounge
Chances Obamacare gets overturned?
In the midst of a global pandemic, spiking rates throughout the U.S., and a presidential election just months away, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to invalidate…
PrawfsBlawg
Optimal Categorization
Main Thursday, May 21, 2020Optimal CategorizationPosted on behalf of Ronen Avraham as part of the Legal Discontinuities Online Symposium.Fennel’s excellent paper deals with the problem of “optimal categorization”. Using one…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Women of the Supreme Court are Sick of These Nonsense Objections to Birth Control
By Tracy Thomas
The Women of the Supreme Court are Sick of These Nonsense Objections to Birth ControlConservatives have been trying to unwind the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
The Right Coast
Little Sisters of the Poor Are Fighting on Two Fronts | RealClearPolitics
The virus has unleashed a torrent of death and suffering upon our nation s elderly. The most vulnerable elderly are those who are already sick and those who are poor…
Government Contracts Legal Forum
Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Health Plans in Landmark $13 Billion Affordable Care Act Case
By Steve McBrady, Dan Wolff, Jacinta Alves, A. Xavier Baker, Skye Mathieson, Charles Baek
On April 27, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Maine Cmty. Health Options et al v. United States, ruling in favor of Maine and companion insurers in the…
Employee Benefits
Addressing Impacts on Group Health Plan Coverage Caused by COVID-19 Employment Changes
This article provides practical guidance regarding how employers should address eligibility and coverage issues under their group health plans resulting from the coronavirus (also known as COVID-19). To avoid drastic…
Health Industry Washington Watch
CMS Proposes 2021 Funding Methodology for ACA Basic Health Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the methodology and data sources it proposes to use to determine federal payment to states that establish a Basic Health Program…
The Benefit of Benefits
Supremes: You Can’t Hurry Love Or Constitutionality of ACA
By Scott E. Galbreath, J.D., LL.M (Tax)
In the 1960's, the Supremes sang, "You can't hurry love." Apparently, the U.S. Supreme Court now feels the same way about the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also…