HHS Urges High Court to Reject Obamacare Nondiscrimination Suit

The US Supreme Court should reject a challenge by two Texas doctors to a ruling that they lacked standing to challenge an Obamacare policy precluding discrimination against LGBTQ+ people, HHS says.

The second Trump administration’s rescission of the policy in January rendered the challenge moot and provided grounds for vacating the decision, physicians Susan Neese and John Hurley said in a May petition to the US Supreme Court. But vacating a decision due to intervening mootness isn’t warranted when the case became moot after the federal appeals court entered its judgment but before the justices could act on a petition ...