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ACLU challenges US on reproductive health rights for immigrant minors
The American Civil Liberties of Northern California filed a lawsuit Friday against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for allowing religious agencies taking in refugees to refuse female immigrant minors access to reproductive healt (More) |
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UN rights experts urge states to address women's health
The UN Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law called on the world's governments to take quick, effective steps towards ensuring women are granted equal rights to health, including reproductive and sexual health. The report , presente (More) |
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California governor signs bill to improve undocumented immigrant healthcare access
California Governor Edmund Brown signed a bill into law on Friday that attempts to allow undocumented immigrants to purchase healthcare plans. The bill, SB 10 , allows the healthcare exchanges set up in the state to seek a waiver from the Departm (More) |
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Supreme Court sends contraception cases back to lower courts
The US Supreme Court on Monday remanded a group of cases challenging the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to the lower courts for further proceedings. The cases, consolidated as Zubik v. Burwell , question whether the mandate (More) |
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Federal judge rules for House Republicans in health care challenge
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday in favor of House Republicans in a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) . Judge Rosemary Collyer found that the Obama administration is ille (More) |
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Zubik v. Burwell: Women and Religion in the Market
JURIST Guest Columnist Lisa C. Ikemoto of University of California-Davis School of Law discusses the latest ACA challenge to appear in front of the US Supreme Court...The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell on March 23, 2016, si (More) |
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Parties file supplemental Supreme Court briefs in contraception case
Religious groups including the Little Sisters of the Poor , and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday filed supplemental briefs [SCOTUSblog report; Petitioner brief, PDF; DOJ brief, PDF] with the US Supreme Court Tuesday in the case of Zub (More) |
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Supreme Court asks for supplemental briefs in birth control case
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order in Zubik v. Burwell , a challenge to the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) birth control mandate, directing the parties to file supplemental briefs. The court, in its order, said that the additional briefs (More) |
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Supreme Court hears argument in birth control mandate challenge
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case Zubik v. Burwell . The case consolidates challenges by several different religious institutions opposing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The plaintiffs argue that the contraceptive (More) |
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Supreme Court releases hearing list concerning redistricting, ACA
The US Supreme Court on Friday released the hearing list for the two-week, 11 hearing period beginning on Monday. The court will hear arguments for Wittman v. Personhuballah on Monday. The case concerns Virginia's redistricting plan and the court (More) |
Bruno Hauptmann executed for kidnap, murder of Lindbergh baby
On April 3, 1936, Bruno Hauptmann was executed by electric chair for the kidnapping and murder of the Charles Lindbergh baby.
Read more about the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in JURIST's Famous Trials series.
