New Regulations Broadening Employer Exemptions to Contraceptive Coverage: Impact on Women
Issue Brief
The Little Sisters of the Poor (LSOP), a religiously-affiliated nursing home that challenged the accommodation under the Obama Administration regulations, requested party status as an intervenor in both the PA and CA cases. The California Northern District Court granted the LSOP party status, the Pennsylvania Eastern District Court denied the LSOP request for party status. The LSOP have appealed the Pennsylvania Eastern District Court decision to deny them party status. The California Northern District Court also granted March for Life Education and Defense Fund, a nonprofit with moral objections to some contraceptive methods, party status. As parties in the case, the LSOP and March for Life Education and Defense Fund have appealed the California Northern District Court decision issuing the preliminary injunction.
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