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133528P.pdf 07/20/2015 Paul Wieland v. U.S. Dept. of HHS
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 13-3528
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Loken and Murphy, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Affordable Care Act. The district court erred in finding that
plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge certain provisions of the
Affordable Care Act and its implementing regulations, which they alleged
required them to obtain, and to provide to their daughters, healthcare
coverage for contraceptives, sterilization and abortifacients in violation
of their sincerely held religious beliefs; the plaintiffs' claimed injury
is fairly traceable to HHS's enforcement of threatened enforcement of the
Mandate as the state health care plan eliminated contraceptive-fee plans
and transferred plaintiffs to a plan including such coverage in order to
avoid violating the Mandate; further, the plaintiffs had sufficiently
alleged that it is more than merely speculative that their injury would be
addressed if they were granted the remedy they seek.