“Appeals Court Blocks Health Law’s Contraception Requirement”: Joe Palazzolo of The Wall Street Journal has a news update that begins, “A federal appeals court on Friday blocked a provision of the Obama administration’s health-care law requiring employers to provide birth-control coverage in employee insurance, ruling that it imposed a ‘substantial burden’ on religious rights of two Midwestern companies.” You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
You can access today’s ruling of a divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit at this link.
Update: In other coverage, Bloomberg News reports that “Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate Blocked by Appeals Court.”
And at “SCOTUSblog,” Lyle Denniston has a post titled “Broad bar to birth-control mandate.”
“FDA seeks faster warning updates for generic drugs”: The Associated Press has this report.
Programming note: This afternoon, I have a meeting out of the office with co-counsel on a pending appeal. Additional posts will appear here this evening.
“Strine Seeks Top Delaware Supreme Court Post; Court Is Final Voice on State’s Business Laws, the Most Influential in the Country”: On Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal posted this article online.
You can freely access the full text of the article via Google.
“Solomonic ruling tests state Supreme Court”: Paul Flemming of The Tallahassee Democrat has this essay discussing a ruling that the Supreme Court of Florida issued yesterday. My earlier coverage of that ruling can be accessed here.
“A prayer paradox at the Supreme Court”: Michael McGough has this essay online at The Los Angeles Times.
“State Supreme Court hears arguments on controversial vanity plate”: This article appears today in The Concord (N.H.) Monitor.
Lynne Tuohy of The Associated Press reports that “NH man fights denial of ‘COPSLIE’ vanity plate.”
And Reuters reports that “New Hampshire man takes vanity plate debate to states top court.”
At this web page, the Supreme Court of New Hampshire provides links to access the audio and video of yesterday’s oral arguments.