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  • Ave Maria not backing down from challenging federal contraceptives rule

    06/29/2012 6:26:15 PM PDT · by smokingfrog · 7 replies
    Naples News ^ | 29 June 2012 | Victoria Macchi
    A U.S. Supreme Court health-care ruling this week won't directly affect lawsuits filed by religious-affiliated employers like Ave Maria University over a controversial contraception mandate earlier this year. But nestled in the 193-page decision issued Thursday that upheld the constitutionality of the federal health-care act, there was a "silver lining for people of faith," said Kyle Duncan, general counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a public interest law firm handling lawsuits by Ave Maria and others. The ruling "suggests that the Supreme Court is willing to entertain arguments that the (Department of Health and Human Services) mandate violates...