Showing posts with label Affordable Care Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affordable Care Act. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 05, 2024

Christian Employers Protected from Requirement to Provide Insurance for Gender Transition Procedures

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 In Christian Employers Alliance v. U.S. EEOC ,  (D ND, March 4, 2024), a North Dakota federal district court enjoined the Department of Hea...
Friday, April 21, 2023

Suit Challenges Tennessee's Ban On Gender Transition Treatment For Minors

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Suit was filed yesterday in a Tennessee federal district court challenging Tennessee's recently enacted law banning medical or surgical ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

HHS Proposes Repeal of Exemption from Contraceptive Mandate for Entities with Nonreligious Moral Objections

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 Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services along with several other federal agencies filed a 147-page release ( full text ) pro...
Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Catholic Hospital's Denial of Gender Dysphoria Procedure Is Illegal Sex Discrimination

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In Hammons v. University of Maryland Medical System Corp. , (D MD, Jan. 6, 2023), a Maryland federal district court held that a hospital'...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

8th Circuit Affirms RFRA Rights of Catholic Health Care Organizations to Refuse Gender Transition Services

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In Religious Sisters of Mercy v. Becerra ,  (8th Cir., Dec. 9, 2022), the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a district court decisi...
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Court Says Title IX and ACA Do Not Bar Transgender Discrimination

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In Neese v. Beccera , (ND TX, Nov. 11, 2022), a Texas federal district court granted declaratory relief concluding that neither Title IX nor...
Thursday, September 08, 2022

ACA Mandate To Cover PrEP Drugs Violates RFRA

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In Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra ,  (ND TX, Sept. 7, 2022), a Texas federal district court held that the ACA mandate for health insur...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

5th Circuit Approves Injunction Shielding Religious Organizations From Mandate On Transgender Medical Care

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In Franciscan Alliance, Inc. v. Becerra ,  (5th Cir., Aug. 26, 2022), the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, invoking RFRA, upheld a Texas f...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

HRSA Wrongly Eliminated Required Insurance Coverage For Natural Family Planning Methods

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 In Tice-Harouff v. Johnson ,  (ED TX, Aug. 12, 2022), a Texas federal district court held that changes in the language of federal regulatio...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022

New Alabama Ban On Gender Transition Procedures For Minors Is Challenged

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Suit was filed last week in an Alabama federal district court challenging SB 184, the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Catholic Hospital's Refusal To Allow Gender Dysphoria Procedure Violates ACA Discrimination Ban

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In Hammons v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ,  (D MD, July 28, 2021), a transgender man challenged the refusal by Univer...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Court Enjoins Trump Administration Roll Back of Transgender Protections In Health Care

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 In Walker v. Azar , (ED NY, Aug. 17, 2020), a New York federal district court enjoined the Trump Administration's roll back of anti-di...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

23 States Sue HHS Over Rollback of Anti-Discrimination Protections In Health Care

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Attorneys general representing 22 states and the District of Columbia filed suit yesterday challenging the Trump Administration's recent...
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Suit Challenges Roll-Back of Health Care Protections For Transgender Individuals

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Suit was filed yesterday in the D.C. federal district court challenging the Trump Administration's recent rule change that rolled back ...
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Supreme Court Will Broadcast Contraceptive Mandate Case Arguments Today In Real Time

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Beginning at 10:00 am (EDT) this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear consolidated oral arguments in Little Sisters of the Poor Saints ...
Tuesday, December 24, 2019

New HHS Obamacare Rule Requires Separate Bill For Abortion Services

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The Department of Health and Human Services last week  issued a group of rules ( full text ) on oversight of state Obamacare exchanges.  One...
Friday, November 29, 2019

State Insurance Regulators Target Trinity Health-Care Sharing Ministry

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NPR reported earlier this week on enforcement actions by insurance regulators in Texas, Colorado, Washington and New Hampshire against Alie...
Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Cert. Petition Filed In Contraceptive Mandate Exemption Challenge

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The Justice Department yesterday filed a petition for certiorari ( full text ) in Trump v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the case, the U....
Thursday, March 21, 2019

ACA Mandate Does Not Violate RFRA

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In Cash v. United States , (MD PA, March 20, 2019), a Pennsylvania federal district court rejected an attack on the Affordable Care Act'...
Sunday, February 03, 2019

ACA Shared Responsibility Payment Did Not Violate Taxpayer's Free Exercise Rights

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In Cash v. Internal Revenue Service,   2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11603 (MD PA, Jan. 23, 3019), a Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge recommen...