July 10, 2020
While the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling that federal civil rights law protects LGBTQ employees resolved a closely watched question that had been brewing for years, the justices also devoted time to workplace law issues like religious employers' rights and causation standards in civil rights cases. Here, Law360 looks at five of the high court's most notable employment decisions this term.
July 09, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Trump v. Pennsylvania could devastate American workers who use birth control in the short term while chipping away at nondiscrimination protections in the long term, civil rights advocates say.
July 08, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Wednesday that employers can exclude birth control from their health care plans if they oppose contraception on moral or religious grounds, upholding Trump administration rules that made it easier to skirt the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate.
May 06, 2020
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the other female members of the U.S. Supreme Court did not mince words during oral arguments Wednesday, attacking the Trump administration's position that regulations that could exempt a broad swath of employers from the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate passed legal muster.
April 16, 2020
Since the coronavirus pandemic canceled the U.S. Supreme Court's April term, the high court has been gradually rescheduling the arguments it had planned to hear over the next few weeks — including those in two high-profile benefits and health care law cases.
April 08, 2020
Twenty states, 32 cities, 186 federal lawmakers and dozens of interest groups railed against the Trump administration's stance in a blockbuster Affordable Care Act case Wednesday, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down regulations allowing employers that oppose contraception to stop covering workers' birth control.
April 02, 2020
The attorneys general of Pennsylvania and New Jersey told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that the Trump administration has no legal ground to create "sweeping" new religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's requirements that employer health plans cover birth control.
March 10, 2020
The Trump administration's stance that American employers with "religious or moral" objections to birth control needn't offer no-cost contraception in their health insurance plans has gotten a boost in a U.S. Supreme Court fight from 20 red states, 161 Republican members of Congress and a flurry of groups.
March 03, 2020
The Trump administration and a Catholic charity have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to greenlight regulations allowing employers to refuse to provide workers with no-cost birth control for "religious" or "moral" reasons, arguing that the regulations are lawful under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
January 17, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the lawfulness of religious and moral exemptions from the Affordable Care Act's requirement for employer health plans to cover birth control.