September 30, 2020
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are taking another swing at Trump administration rules that could limit employer-provided birth control coverage, urging a Pennsylvania judge to nix the regulations permanently about three months after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a temporary ban on the policy.
July 31, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday paused a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration's expanded exemptions to the birth control coverage mandate in the Affordable Care Act, citing the administration's potential appeal of a Third Circuit ruling that halted enforcement of the two new exemptions.
July 01, 2019
Pennsylvania and New Jersey have asked a federal court to throw out two Trump administration rules that allow employers to claim a moral or religious objection to the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, arguing that the rules flout several federal statutes.
June 21, 2019
The first half of 2019 saw an extraordinary eruption of important court decisions likely to leave lasting marks on the opioid crisis, the False Claims Act, the Affordable Care Act and Medicare reimbursement. Here, Law360 takes stock of consequential health care and life sciences rulings that lawyers need to know.
June 07, 2019
A broad swath of professional, medical and legal organizations filed briefs Friday urging a Philadelphia federal judge to reject the Trump administration's rules offering wide exceptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage mandate.
January 14, 2019
A Pennsylvania federal judge issued a nationwide injunction Monday blocking Trump administration carveouts to the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate from taking effect, one day after a court in California blocked the same ACA exemptions in 13 states and the District of Columbia.
January 08, 2019
Attorneys general for 20 states and the District of Columbia have thrown their support behind Pennsylvania and New Jersey in urging a federal court to block proposed Trump administration rules allowing employers to opt out of covering contraception if they oppose its use on moral or religious grounds.
January 04, 2019
A nuns' group is fighting a renewed attempt by two East Coast states to block the Trump administration's birth control rules, which allow employers to opt out of covering contraception if they oppose its use on moral or religious grounds.
December 14, 2018
A Pennsylvania federal judge has given the state the go-ahead to seek a second injunction against Trump administration rules that weaken the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, lifting a stay in the case Friday.
November 27, 2018
Pennsylvania indicated Monday that it plans to continue challenging Trump administration rules that weaken the Affordable Care Act's birth control mandate, telling a district judge who blocked the rules last year that it will seek another injunction now that the federal government has published the regulations again.