A federal appellate court on Wednesday rejected requests by a group of Roman Catholic-related nonprofit organizations to block the contraceptive coverage requirement in the Affordable Care Act.
In consolidated appeals from Michigan and Tennessee, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit unanimously agreed with two district court judges that the groups had failed to show a strong likelihood of success on their claims that the coverage requirement violated the First Amendment, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
