Legal Opinion
East Texas Baptist University v. Sebelius
District Court, S.D. Texas
Decided December 27, 2013No. Civil Action No. H-12-3009PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND OPINION
LEE H. ROSENTHAL, District Judge.
The Affordable Care Act mandates coverage for contraceptive services in group health plans that employers must provide their employees. Churches, nonprofit religious organizations, and for-profit corporations owned by deeply religious individuals challenged this mandate as offensive to their religious beliefs. The federal government responded. Recent regulations exempt “religious employers,” primarily churches, from the mandate; provide an accommodation for nonprofit religious organizations allowing them to avoid direct involvement in…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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- Wisconsin v. YoderSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Sherbert v. VernerSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Employment Div., Dept. of Human Resources of Ore. v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
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3Cited by10 opinions
- University of Notre Dame v. Kathleen SebeliusCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 2014
- Sharpe Holdings, Inc. v. United States Department of Health & Human ServicesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2015
- Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Inc. v. SebeliusDistrict Court, N.D. Indiana · 2013
- Catholic Diocese of Beaumont v. SebeliusDistrict Court, E.D. Texas · 2014
- Archdiocese of St. Louis v. BurwellDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 2014
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