Alito steps into ACA contraception case [View all]
Source: Modern Healthcare
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito signed an order Wednesday temporarily granting relief to a handful of Pennsylvania religious organizations from a lower court's decision that they must notify insurers of their intention not to provide birth control to employees, or face fines under the Affordable Care Act.
The order stays a ruling of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that would require the organizations to fill out a form explaining to insurers that they will not provide contraceptive coverage to their employees. Filling out the form would allow the government to work with insurers to provide that coverage to employees instead. The parties involved in the lawsuit include Geneva College, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh and David Zubik, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh.
The organizations had argued that filling out the form violated their religious beliefs because it compelled them to help employees get contraceptive coverage. The 3rd Circuit, however, ruled that the form “places no substantial burden” on the religious organizations to do so.
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