TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Amelia Ferrell Knisely on May 16, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court today avoided ruling on the dispute between faith-based groups and the Obama administration over birth control when it asked lower courts to reach a compromise on the issue. The unanimous opinion said it would not rule on the merits of the challenge and effectively threw out lower court rulings that had favored the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate. Religious nonprofits claimed they could reject the requirement under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. “The decision to send the case back to the appellate level appears to be a direct impact of Justice Antonin Scalia's death in February,” CNN reports.