(February 21, 2019, 1:55 PM EST) -- HARRISBURG, Pa. — States lack standing to challenge rules expanding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate exemptions and cannot prevail even if they did because the rules comply with the law and procedural requirements, the federal defendants defending the rules told a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel in a Feb. 15 brief (Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, et al. v. President, United States of America, et al., Nos. 17-3752, 18-1253,19-1129, 19-1189, 3rd Cir.)....