I am sick of these freeloader church groups.

... met with a resounding lack of enthusiasm. This was one of THE major lawsuits against the HHS contraception mandate.

http://www.becketfund.org/hhsinformationcentral/
Current Scorecard for Non-Profit Cases
(click on link for details on each case)

51 non-profit lawsuits with a score card of 23 injunctions granted to 5 injunctions denied.

Injunctions Granted:
•Catholic Benefits Association (W.D. Okla. June 4, 2014)
•Dordt College (N.D. Iowa May 21, 2014)
•Union University (W.D. Tenn. April. 29, 2014) (Temporary Injunction)

•FOCUS (D. Colo. Apr. 23, 2014)
•Dobson (D. Colo. Apr. 17, 2014)
•Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta (N.D. Ga. Ma. 26, 2014)
•Little Sisters of the Poor (S. Ct. Jan. 24, 2014)
•Ave Maria Foundation (E.D. Mich. Jan. 13, 2014)
•Catholic Diocese of Beaumont (E.D. Tex. Jan. 2, 2014)

•Priests for Life (D.C. Cir. Dec. 31, 2013)
•Catholic Archbishop of Washington (D.C. Cir. Dec. 31, 2013)

•Catholic Archdiocese of Fort Worth (N.D. Tex. Dec. 31, 2013)

•CNS Ministries/Sharpe Holdings, Inc. (E.D. Mo. Dec. 30, 2013)

•Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend (N.D. Ind. Dec. 27, 2013)

•East Texas Baptist University/Houston Baptist University (S.D. Tex. Dec. 27, 2013)

•Grace Schools (N.D. Ind. Dec. 27, 2013)

•Geneva College (W.D. Pa. Dec. 23, 2013)

•Southern Nazarene University v. Sebelius (W.D. Okla. Dec. 20, 2013)
•GuideStone/Reaching Souls International (W.D. Okla. Dec. 20, 2013)
•Legatus (E.D. Mich. Dec. 20, 2013)
•Catholic Archdiocese of New York (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 16, 2013)

•Catholic Diocese of Erie (W.D. Pa. Nov. 21, 2013)

•Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh (W.D. Pa. Nov. 21, 2013)


Injunctions Denied:
•Eternal Word Television Network (S.D. Ala. June 17, 2014)
•Catholic Diocese of Nashville (6th Cir. June 11, 2014)
•Michigan Catholic Conference (6th Cir. June 11, 2014)
•Catholic Diocese of Cheyenne (D. Wyo. May 13, 2014)
•University of Notre Dame (7th Cir. Feb. 21, 2014)


Cases Awaiting Court Decisions:
•Louisiana College (W.D. La. filed Feb. 18, 2012)
•College of the Ozarks (W.D. Mo. filed Apr. 19, 2013)
•Colorado Christian University (D. Colo. filed Aug. 7, 2013)
•Ave Maria University (M.D. Fla. filed Aug. 29, 2013)
•Right to Life Michigan (W.D. Mich. filed Nov. 4, 2013)
•Ave Maria School of Law (M.D. Fla. filed Nov. 12, 2013)
•Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis (E.D. Mo. filed Nov. 14, 2013)
•Wheaton College (N.D. Ill. filed Dec. 13, 2013)
•Belmont Abbey College (D.D.C. filed Nov. 20, 2013)
•Catholic Diocese of Biloxi (S.D. Miss. filed Mar. 27, 2014)
•Media Research Center (E.D. Va. filed Apr. 11, 2014)
•Catholic Diocese of Greensburg (W.D. Pa. filed May 27, 2014)
•Archdiocese of Philadelphia (E.D. Pa. filed June 2, 2014)

Cases filed against previous versions of the HHS Mandate and dismissed on procedural or other grounds:
•Liberty University (4th Cir. Dec. 2, 2013)
•Nebraska (8th Cir. Aug. 21, 2013)
•Criswell College (N.D. Tex. Apr. 9, 2013)
•Franciscan University (S.D. Ohio Mar. 22, 2013)
•Catholic Archdiocese of Miami (S.D. Fla. Mar. 4, 2013)
•Catholic Diocese of Dallas (N.D. Tex. Feb. 26, 2013)
•Catholic Diocese of Joliet (N.D. Ill. Feb. 8, 2013)
•Catholic Diocese of Peoria (C.D. Ill. Jan. 4, 2013)
•Wieland (E.D. Mo. Oct. 16, 2013)
•American Family Association (N.D. Miss. July 19, 2013)

employees. There is no "mandate". The company can opt out of providing healthcare coverage and pay a fee to the government to cover cost of providing the coverage for the employees.

This fee is much less than the actual coverage would cost. So there is no "undue burden" on their practice of religion.


This suit is simply a shill to impose religious doctrine on others.

And the groups challenging this healthcare coverage call themselves names like "Alliance Defending Freedom".

In a previous post I had listed the non-profit lawsuits but at this site is also a list of the for-profit cases:
http://blog.alliancedefendingfreedom.org/2013/01/14/hhs-mandate-cases-a-scorecard/

For-Profit Tally

Fifteen lawsuits have been filed by for-profit businesses and their owners. Their religious consciences preclude them from subsidizing the use of contraceptives and/or abortifacients by participants in their health insurance plans. Because the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declined to extend the “Temporary Enforcement Safe Harbor” to such for-profit companies, it has been necessary for most of them to seek immediate relief from the federal courts. The good news is that most courts have afforded that relief, either a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction. Unfortunately, a few courts denied the requests for interim relief. The government has argued that for-profit business simply cannot exercise religion at all, thus that they have no religious exercise rights that might be violated.

Injunctions Granted: 7 cases
Newland (Hercules Industries) v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, District of Colorado
Weingartz Supply Co. v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, Eastern District of Michigan
Tyndale Publishers v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, District of Columbia
American Pulverizer Co. v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, Western District of Missouri
Domino’s Farms Corp. v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, Eastern District of Michigan
Sharpe Holdings, Inc. v. HHS – Temporary restraining order, Eastern District of Missouri
Triune Health Group v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, Northern District of Illinois

Injunctions Pending Appeal Granted: 2 cases
Korte v. Sebelius – Preliminary injunction, 7th Circuit
O’Brien v. HHS – Preliminary injunction, 8th Circuit

Injunctions Denied: 5 cases
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius – Western District of Oklahoma, 10th Circuit, Supreme Court
Autocam Corp. v. Sebelius – Western District of Michigan, 6th Circuit
Grote Indus. LLC v. Sebelius –Southern District of Indiana
Annex Medical v. Sebelius –District of Minnesota
Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius – Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Motion to Dismiss Pending: 1 case
Seneca Hardwood v. Sebelius – Western District of Pennsylvania