Court orders review in Ohio birth control case

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered
further review in a case involving Ohio business owners who challenged
the birth control mandate under the new federal health care law,
following its ruling that businesses can now lodge religious objections
to the coverage.
The case involves two brothers, Francis and
Philip M. Gilardi, who own Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics of
Sidney, Ohio, and challenged the mandate on religious grounds. Last
November, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of the brothers based on
their individual right to object to the coverage for their 400 employees
if it goes against their Catholic faith, not on a company’s right.
On
Tuesday, the Supreme Court refused to consider the federal government’s
appeal of that lower court ruling, but also sent the case back to the
appeals court to rule in accordance with the justices’ most recent
decision. On Monday, the high court ruled for the first time that
businesses can hold religious views under federal law.
The
justices also ordered lower courts that ruled in favor of the Obama
administration in separate cases to reconsider those decisions in light
of Monday’s 5-4 decision.
Two Michigan-based companies, Autocam
Corp. and Eden Foods Inc., both lost their cases in the lower courts.
The justices ordered the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati
to reconsider its decisions against the companies.

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