Foothill Church v. Watanabe

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9 FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 11 Foothill Church, et al., No. 2:15-CV-02165-KJM-EFB 12 Plaintiffs, ORDER 13 v. 14 Mary Watanabe, in her official capacity as 15 Director of the California Department of Managed Healthcare, 16 Defendant. 17 18 From one vantage point, this case involves a dispute about whether the agency regulating 19 | insurance plans in California must consider religious exemption requests from individual 20 | enrollees and subscribers if the agency’s ordinary practice is to consider requests from health 21 | insurance…