Legal Opinion
Com. of Mass. v. U.S. Dep't of Health & Human Servs.
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided March 12, 2018No. Civil Action No. 17–11930–NMGPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GORTON, United States District Judge
This case involves a dispute about the validity of two Interim Final Rules ("IFRs") issued by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the United States Department of the Treasury and the United States Department of Labor (collectively "defendants" or "the Departments") on October 6, 2017. The IFRs expand the religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") and create a new moral exemption to that mandate.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts ("plaintiff" or "the Commonwealth") alleges that 1) the Departments…
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