Supreme Court Receives Opening Salvos In ACA Opt-Out Fight

(January 15, 2016, 4:32 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Debate over whether or not nonprofits and other religious employers’ religious beliefs are burdened by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s contraceptive mandate accommodation process put the president’s signature accomplishment before the Supreme Court yet again, as briefing began this month in the latest challenge to the law (David Zubik v. Sylvia Burwell, Priests for Life, et al. v. HHS, Roman Catholic v. HHS, East Texas Baptist v. Burwell, Little Sisters, et al. v. Burwell, Southern Nazarene v. Burwell, Geneva College v. Burwell, Nos. 14-1418, 14-1453, 14-1505, 15-35, 15-105, 15-119, 15-191, U.S. Sup.)....