Posted on 07/17/2012 4:19:48 PM PDT by Nachum
A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by attorneys general of several states against the Obama HHS mandate that requires to religious employers to pay for or refer women for abortion-causing drugs and birth control in violation of their religious liberties.
U.S. District Judge Warren Urbom of Lincoln, Nebraska dismissed the case the state attorney general there filed with several other colleagues from across the nation. he said the states did not have standing in court to bring the lawsuit against the Obamacare HHS mandate.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning’s office brought the lawsuit along with attorneys general of Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Catholic Social Services, Pius X High School and the Catholic Mutual Relief Society of America joined the Nebraska case against the mandate.
A Lincoln Journal Star report on the decision provided more details about the judge’s reason for dismissing the legal challenge:
Urbom sided with the U.S. Justice Department, which argued that the plaintiffs did not show that they faced the immediate threat of having to offer the coverage, because the federal government delayed enforcement of the rule until August 2013. That so-called “safe harbor” provision is to allow accommodations to be worked out for some religious groups.
The Justice Department also said the states lacked the legal grounds to sue over the provision because they don’t enjoy First Amendment protections.
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“I wonder what the DoJ will do to the Catholic Hospital chains that passively resist these mandates?”
Here’s a hint: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege
“I wonder what the DoJ will do to the Catholic Hospital chains that passively resist these mandates?”
Probably arrest them.
Christians are the new Juden in Amerika now.
cruxify them!
What about Obama’s 1,500 ILLEGAL waivers to his union cronies and campaign donors? How come the church can’t get a waiver? What about THAT, Judge Urbom? WHERE THE HELL IS THE LAWSUIT OVER OBAMA’S WAIVERS? HOW CAN A PRESIDENT UNILATERALLY ORDER SOME AMERICANS TO PAY A TAX AND OTHERS NOT?
Lovely! When the States have no standing against the Federal Government, who does?
We are fast becoming a lawless nation due to the stupid rulings (read political) by both State and Federal Courts.
Wow.. All the way back to Clinton. I knew WACO was just a test run..
We will soon learn whether large organized religions in the USA have beliefs they will stand behind, or are just businesses using religion as a tax dodge.
You have got that right.
The DOJ will Waco on Christian religious extremists, but protect the rights of Koranimals to ensure they have “religious freedom”.
Romney should announce loudly and clearly that Catholic institutions will not be forced to go against their teachings if he is elected. He should say that while he is standing next to Cardinal Dolan.
I’m so sick and tired of this “no legal standing” malarky. If the states themselves don’t have standing, then who does? Where did this ahole get his law degree? Kafka University?
It’s all Obamacare, every day, all the way. Might as well drop the court cases, no judge is going find against Obamacare now.
Does this guy ever lose? It’s hopeless. He never loses, whether in court or in congress or in the court of public opinion. No matter how badly truth and logic and morality are stacked against him. He never loses.
States are people. First amendment applies. In fact states can do religious things fedgov cannot.
Did you get that from Al Sharpton? CruCify, not cruXify. :-)
Resist we much!
Close them or seize them in some form of nationalization and maintain the staff that will stay, making it clear that doctors who quit will have severe problems in practicing medicine anywhere else.
Time for a weak, narrow fedgov again.
Long past time! Back to the Federalists vision of the Federal Government and their limitations!
"misdemeanor motor vehicle homicide in connection with the traffic death Sept. 8 of Fred McEntarffer, 74, of Lincoln."
Must be nice...
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