California Federal Judge Allows Intervention Into Contraceptive Mandate Suit

(January 3, 2018, 1:46 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A religious order has sufficient interests in the outcome of a suit challenging rules broadening the exemptions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate to permit intervention into the case, a federal judge in California held Dec. 29 (California, et al. v. Don J. Wright, et al., No. 17-5783, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 213352)....