ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION v. U.S. DEPT. OF HHS

Nos. 14-12696, 14-12890, 14-13239.

818 F.3d 1122 (2016)

ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, State of Alabama, Plaintiff, SECRETARY OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Defendants-Appellees. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, an association of churches and schools, The Most Reverend Wilton D. Gregory, and his successors, Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Inc., a Georgia non-profit corporation, The Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, an ecclesiastical territory, The Most Reverend John Hartmayer, and his successors, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Treasury, Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor, Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lori Halstead Windham , Daniel Howard Blomberg , Eric C. Rassbach , Mark Rienzi , Diana Verm , The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Stuart Kyle Duncan , Duncan PLLC, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Patrick Nemeroff , Bradley Philip Humphreys , Adam C. Jed , Alisa Beth Klein , Joshua Marc Salzman , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, JILL PRYOR and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.


The plaintiffs in these consolidated appeals challenge the regulations implementing what is known as the "contraceptive mandate" of the Affordable Care Act ("ACA") — the requirement that employers provide health insurance coverage for preventive care (including contraception) to women.1

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