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Filed in: ObamaCare | by Edward White | 1:06 PM Apr. 30, 2013
ACLJ Files Opening Brief in the Gilardi HHS Mandate Appeal
The American Center for Law & Justice has filed its opening brief in Gilardi v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, an appeal pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. We represent Frank and Phil Gilardi and their two companies, Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics. The Gilardis are Catholic, and they run their companies pursuant to their faith. In keeping with their Catholic faith, the Gilardis have ensured for the past decade that th... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Edward White | 4:14 PM Feb. 15, 2013
ACLJ Files Briefs Supporting Two HHS Mandate Appeals
The American Center for Law & Justice (“ACLJ”) has filed “friend-of-the-court” briefs in support of HHS Mandate challenges filed by the plaintiffs in the following two appeals: Autocam Corp. v. Sebelius (United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit) and Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius (United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit). In both of those cases, the plaintiffs were denied injunctive relief to prevent them from having to comply with the Mandat... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Francis J. Manion | 3:52 PM Feb. 7, 2013
Standing Firm Against ObamaCare’s HHS Mandate
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' statement today responding to the Administration's latest proposal to amend the HHS mandate confirms the concerns many of us have been expressing since the proposal was announced last week. The bishops point out that the proposal: (1) continues to treat religiously-affiliated organizations such as schools, hospitals, soup kitchens and homeless shelters as "second-class citizens" instead of as integral parts of a church's religious mission; (2) fails to ... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Walter M. Weber | 4:16 PM Jan. 31, 2013
Helping HHS Mandate Supporters Understand
The HHS mandate — the rule requiring employers to provide “free” birth-control coverage in their employee insurance plans or pay a penalty — has been challenged in federal courts, and the court of public opinion, across the nation. The theory, as Ed Whelan explains, is pretty simple: forcing someone to subsidize activities he or she finds religiously and morally objectionable, without an overriding justification for doing so, is a straightforward violation of religious li... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 10:00 AM Jan. 9, 2013
HHS Fines for Challenging Mandate? Not So Fast
We are on the front lines when it comes to challenging the HHS mandate which requires employers to provide health insurance for employees that include paying for abortion-producing drugs - or face still penalties including significant fines. To date, we have secured injunctions – putting the mandate on hold - for three clients – all businesses - whose owners believe the mandate violates their religious beliefs. But there are a few legal challenges where the decision has gone the ot... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by CeCe Heil | 2:52 PM Dec. 6, 2012
Another Victory For Challengers of the Abortion-Pill Mandate
On December 4, 2012, a federal court in Brooklyn, New York ruled that various Roman Catholic entities in the New York area had legal standing to pursue their challenge to the so-called “HHS Mandate,” a series of federal regulations requiring virtually all employers to pay for their employees’ contraception, sterilization, and early abortion-inducing drugs. This significant ruling comes on the heels of a federal appeals court’s issuance of a preliminary injunction against ... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 2:06 PM Nov. 20, 2012
The Challenge to the HHS Mandate Intensifies
There's been a troubling decision involving one of the many legal challenges to the HHS mandate in ObamaCare which forces employer provided health insurance plans to cover abortion pills. A federal district court judge has ruled against the Oklahoma City-based Hobby Lobby and Mardel - companies that challenged the HHS mandate claiming the regulations violate the religious beliefs of the owners. In its decision, the court concluded that the retailers must follow contraceptive health insurance ru... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Jay Sekulow | 1:06 PM Oct. 26, 2012
New Progress in the Fight Against the Abortion-Pill Mandate
The ACLJ has recently filed our third lawsuit against President Obama’s abortion-pill mandate. The mandate, implemented by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through ObamaCare, forces employer provided health insurance plans to cover abortion pills. It forces people of faith who believe in the sanctity of human life to pay for abortion-pill coverage in direct violation of their constitutionally protected religious liberties. The ACLJ has now filed three directed challenges... Continue Reading
Filed in: ObamaCare | by Matthew Clark | 4:42 PM Oct. 15, 2012
The Tyranny of the Abortion Pill Mandate
Challenges against President Obama’s abortion-pill mandate continue to grow, as people all across America stand up against this blatant violation of religious liberty. The premise behind the HHS Mandate is quite simple. All employers, religious or otherwise, must provide health insurance for their employees that covers contraceptives and abortion pills. In other words, regardless of your faith, you must pay for abortion pills. For the millions of Americans who believe that we are all cre... Continue Reading
Filed in: US Constitution | by Francis J. Manion | 11:33 AM Oct. 1, 2012
ACLJ Takes Case Against HHS Mandate To The Next Level
Late Friday afternoon, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri granted the Obama Administration’s Motion to Dismiss the case we filed against the HHS contraception/abortifacient mandate back in March of this year. In that case, we represent Frank O’Brien, Jr., a St. Louis businessman whose Catholic religious principles forbid him from paying for services such as contraception, sterilization and abortifacient drugs as part of his employee health plan. O’Brie... Continue Reading