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Legal Wrap: Two Very Different Reminders of Why Courts Matter
Legal Wrap is a weekly round-up of key legal reproductive rights and justice news. Words fail to describe the injustice in the Michael Dunn verdict, but RH Reality Check Editor in Chief Jodi Jacobson...
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Appeals Court Rejects Notre Dame’s Challenge to Contraception Mandate
On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled against the University of Notre Dame’s challenge to the contraception mandate in the Affordable Care Act, holding that the university hadn’t demonstrated that...
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Where Are the Women in the Contraception Mandate Cases?
Read more of our coverage on the Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood cases here. The debate over the contraception mandate has raged on for more than a year with virtually no input from the women who stand...
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Supreme Court Considering Request to Extend Hobby Lobby Ruling to Nonprofits...
UPDATE, July 3, 5:05 p.m.: Late Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled Wheaton College could receive the religious accommodation to the birth control benefit. Like the Court did last year in the Little...
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Notre Dame Asks Supreme Court to Vacate Lower Court’s Birth Control Ruling
Less than six months after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision allowing some companies to opt out of complying with the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act, attorneys for the...
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Legal Scholars, Reproductive Health Advocates Comment on Exemptions to Birth...
The commenting period on a proposed expansion of the Affordable Care Act’s accommodation to the contraception coverage benefit for religious objectors closed Tuesday, leaving the Obama administration...
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Supreme Court Revives Notre Dame’s Challenge to Obamacare Birth Control Benefit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a request by the University of Notre Dame, directing that a federal appeals court take another look at its decision to order the university to comply with the...
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The Next Wave of Contraceptive Challenges Hits the Appellate Courts
Read more of our articles on challenges to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit here. The notoriously conservative U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard arguments on Tuesday by...
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Notre Dame Once Again Loses Legal Battle Against Birth Control Benefit
A federal appeals court on Tuesday again rejected claims by the University of Notre Dame that the federal accommodation process to the birth control benefit in the Affordable Care Act (ACA)...
View ArticleNotre Dame Graduates Walk Out on Pence: ‘Now Is the Time for Us to Stand Up’
Jessica Pedroza rose to her feet as Vice President Mike Pence began his address Sunday at University of Notre Dame’s commencement. Her heart pounding fast, she strode away from the stage as, all around...
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