Court Rejects Anti-Abortion Group’s Rehearing Request In ACA Birth Control Case

Mealey's (May 1, 2018, 1:34 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing from a nonreligious employer seeking the protection of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate exemption, with a judge who authored a dissent to the original opinion the lone judge to vote to grant the motion on April 27 (Real Alternatives Inc., et al. v. Secretary Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 16-1275, 3rd Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 14361)....