Federal Government Says Pennsylvania Lacks Injury, ACA Case Lacks Merit

Mealey's (September 27, 2018, 9:52 AM EDT) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania lacks standing, filed its suit in the wrong district and cannot hope to prevail on the merits of its challenge to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules expanding religious and moral exclusions to the law’s birth control mandate, the government tells the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a brief filed Sept. 24 (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., Nos. 17-3752, 18-1253, 3rd Cir.)....