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theHandpuppet

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6. Yeah, they call it "religious liberty"
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 11:51 AM
Jun 2014

And the groups challenging this healthcare coverage call themselves names like "Alliance Defending Freedom".

In a previous post I had listed the non-profit lawsuits but at this site is also a list of the for-profit cases:
http://blog.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/2013/01/14/hhs-mandate-cases-a-scorecard/

For-Profit Tally

Fifteen lawsuits have been filed by for-profit businesses and their owners. Their religious consciences preclude them from subsidizing the use of contraceptives and/or abortifacients by participants in their health insurance plans. Because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declined to extend the “Temporary Enforcement Safe Harbor” to such for-profit companies, it has been necessary for most of them to seek immediate relief from the federal courts. The good news is that most courts have afforded that relief, either a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction. Unfortunately, a few courts denied the requests for interim relief. The government has argued that for-profit business simply cannot exercise religion at all, thus that they have no religious exercise rights that might be violated.

Injunctions Granted: 7 cases
Newland (Hercules Industries) v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, District of Colorado
Weingartz Supply Co. v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, Eastern District of Michigan
Tyndale Publishers v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, District of Columbia
American Pulverizer Co. v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, Western District of Missouri
Domino’s Farms Corp. v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, Eastern District of Michigan
Sharpe Holdings, Inc. v. HHS – Temporary restraining order, Eastern District of Missouri
Triune Health Group v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, Northern District of Illinois

Injunctions Pending Appeal Granted: 2 cases
Korte v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, 7th Circuit
O’Brien v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, 8th Circuit

Injunctions Denied: 5 cases
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius – Western District of Oklahoma, 10th Circuit, Supreme Court
Autocam Corp. v. Sebelius – Western District of Michigan, 6th Circuit
Grote Indus. LLC v. Sebelius –Southern District of Indiana
Annex Medical v. Sebelius –District of Minnesota
Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius – Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Motion to Dismiss Pending: 1 case
Seneca Hardwood v. Sebelius – Western District of Pennsylvania

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