Monday, July 22, 2013
Federal judge grants Hobby Lobby exemption from birth control mandate
[JURIST] Judge Joe Heaton of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma [official website] on Friday granted Hobby Lobby [corporate website] a temporary exemption [order, PDF] from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST backgrounder] provision requiring carriers to offer insurance coverage for birth control. Hobby Lobby and its sister company, Mardel, have argued that that having to provide every form of birth control would violate their religious beliefs. The US Department of Justice...
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