Birth Control Defendants Tell 9th Circuit Injury Lacking In ACA Rules Case

Mealey's (June 26, 2018, 1:11 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — States have not shown that federal regulations expanding moral and religious exemptions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate would result in any women turning to them for coverage or that the rules would impact state budgets in any way, two intervenors and the federal defendants told the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 11 in arguing that the plaintiffs lack standing (California, et al. v. Alex M. Azar II, et al., Nos. 18-15144, 18-15166, 18-15255, 9th Cir.)....