Amicus Parties Urge 9th Circuit To Reject ACA Rules Challenge

Mealey's (April 19, 2018, 2:54 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Updated rules providing more exemptions from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate merely corrected unfair discrimination and disparate treatment in the initial rules that ran into constitutional issues, two amicus curiae parties told the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 16 in urging them to reject a challenge to the rules brought by a group of states challenge to those rules (California, et al. v. Alex M. Azar II, et al., Nos. 18-15144, 18-15166, 18-15255, 9th Cir.)....