Supreme Court Won’t Review Nonprofits’ Challenge to ACA Contraceptive Mandate

Less than a week after hearing oral arguments on whether for-profit secular corporations may avoid Affordable Care Act regulations requiring them to provide employee insurance plans that cover contraceptive products and services, the U.S. Supreme Court denied review in two challenges to the same regulations posed by nonprofit religious organizations (Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington v. Sebelius; Priests for Life v. HHS).

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington and Priests for Life, in separate petitions for writs of certiorari, asked the high court to review decisions from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that ...