RE: Has anyone compiled the facts re Hobby Lobby type corporate ACA mandate plaintiffs?

2016-08-11 Thread Case, Mary Anne
Thanks Tom. I was about to ask a research assistant to do exactly that when it occurred to me I might not need to reinvent the wheel and sent out the query to check. From: religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu [mailto:religionlaw-boun...@lists.ucla.edu] On Behalf Of Berg, Thomas C. Sent:

Re: Has anyone compiled the facts re Hobby Lobby type corporate ACA mandate plaintiffs?

2016-08-11 Thread Berg, Thomas C.
Mary Ann, I don't know of any tabulation of all that information. You could get some of it reasonably efficiently through the Becket Fund HHS information site, http://www.becketfund.org/hhsinformationcentral. The entries for individual cases in the case database list the named plaintiffs,

Re: Has anyone compiled the facts re Hobby Lobby type corporate ACA mandate plaintiffs?

2016-08-11 Thread Marty Lederman
I'm not aware of any for-profits that have (yet) alleged that the accommodation does not satisfy their RFRA claim. Anyone heard of any? On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Laycock, H Douglas (hdl5c) < hd...@virginia.edu> wrote: > The only piece of information I’m aware of is that one of the

RE: Has anyone compiled the facts re Hobby Lobby type corporate ACA mandate plaintiffs?

2016-08-11 Thread Laycock, H Douglas (hdl5c)
The only piece of information I'm aware of is that one of the government's briefs in Zubik says there are only 87 of them. Douglas Laycock Robert E. Scott Distinguished Professor of Law University of Virginia Law School 580 Massie Road Charlottesville, VA 22903 434-243-8546 From:

Sterling: A helpful test case on RFRA burdens

2016-08-11 Thread Marty Lederman
For purposes of a project I'm currently working on, I'm genuinely curious whether any readers on the list think that there was a substantial burden here. Paul Clement argued on behalf of the plaintiff's cause, and there were a slew of amicus briefs, so I assume there's a serious dispute out

Re: Sterling: A helpful test case on RFRA burdens

2016-08-11 Thread Marty Lederman
Sorry, meant to add the following to Point 3 (in bold): 3. Sterling's posting of the signs was (let’s assume--as the court did) sincerely motivated by her religious beliefs, and the signs had religious significance to her. *In particular, she testified that she "posted the signs in the form of

Has anyone compiled the facts re Hobby Lobby type corporate ACA mandate plaintiffs?

2016-08-11 Thread Case, Mary Anne
Is there, as far as any of you know, any available compilation of background factual data concerning all of the for profit objectors to the ACA contraception mandate, including, for example, such information as their religious affiliation, their corporate form, the familial relationships of

New RFRA Opinion

2016-08-11 Thread Friedman, Howard M.
The Armed Forces Court of Appeals handed down an interesting RFRA decision yesterday-- with an extensive discussion of the "substantial burden" prong as well as some other unique issues: http://religionclause.blogspot.com/2016/08/armed-forces-court-of-appeals.html Howard Friedman