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EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY v. SEBELIUS

Civil Action No. H-12-3009.

988 F.Supp.2d 743 (2013)

EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Kathleen SEBELIUS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas, Houston Division.

December 27, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric Christopher Rassbach , Diana Marie Verm , Eric Shawn Baxter , The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC, James E. Zucker , Yetter Coleman LLP, Houston, TX, Reagan W. Simpson , Scott A. Keller , Yetter Coleman LLP, Austin, TX, for Plaintiffs.

Jacek Pruski , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Daniel David Hu , Office of the U.S. Attorneys Office, Houston, TX, for Defendants.

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...

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