It's Round Two for ACA's Contraceptive Coverage Mandate
Two private religious universities and a seminary launched the next wave of Affordable Care Act cases in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday, in a challenge stemming from the law's contraceptive insurance requirement.
In Houston Baptist University v. Burwell, the three challengers contend that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit was wrong when it found that the government's option for accommodating their religious objections to the contraceptive coverage did not substantially burden their exercise of religion in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA).
Houston Baptist University, East Texas Baptist University and Pennsylvania-based Westminster Theological Seminary filed the petition for review, represented by Paul Clement of Bancroft and the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Clement successfully argued Burwell v. Hobby Lobby in 2014, in which a 5-4 high court held...
