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The Current State of ERISA
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) has developed since it first passed in 1974. Some of the most pressing and evolving issues today pertain to marriage statuses under ERISA, the impact of the Affordable Care Act, if any, on ERISA and (More) |
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ERISA
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act is a complex piece of legislation that Congress passed in 1974 to ensure that the pensions of private sector employees had stability and protection. The legislation only applies to private companies, leavin (More) |
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US House passes federal funding bill proposing to defund Affordable Care Act
The US House of Representatives Friday voted 230 to 189 to approve the necessary stop gap funding for federal agencies, but also included terms which would strip funding from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text, PDF; JURIS (More) |
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Obama administration asks Supreme Court to review contraception mandate
The Obama administration on Thursday petitioned the US Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to review the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST backgrounder] "contraception mandate." The legal (More) |
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Can Corporations Believe in God? Religious Exemptions to Preventive Care Provisions of the Affordable Care Act
JURIST Guest Columnist Nicholas Caselli, University of Chicago Law School Class of 2015, discusses the circuit split created by Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp v. Sebelius and argues that the right of corporations to impose their religious beliefs wa (More) |
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Third Circuit rules business cannot challenge birth control mandate
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Friday that family-owned, profit-making businesses cannot challenge the new federal health care law's birth control mandate on religious grounds. Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania compan (More) |
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Litigation
On the day President Obama signed the legislation into law, several lawsuits were filed in federal courts nationwide challenging its constitutionality. These lawsuits raised many different arguments, but the central claims underlying all of the cases (More) |
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Introduction
Congress passed comprehensive health care reform in March 2010 after over a year of debate in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is aimed at reforming the private health insurance ma (More) |
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Health Care Reform
Comprehensive health care reform was passed by Congress in March 2010 after over a year of congressional debate. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was aimed at both reforming the private health insurance market and ensuring great (More) |
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Federal judge grants Hobby Lobby exemption from birth control mandate
Judge Joe Heaton of the US District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma on Friday granted Hobby Lobby a temporary exemption from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) [text; JURIST backgrounder] provision requiring carrier (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
