(CNSNews.com) – A federal judge in Michigan has set Sept. 26 as the date to hear oral arguments in a case seeking to block the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.
The case before Judge Robert Cleland of the Eastern District of Michigan — a George H.W. Bush appointee — was filed on May 6 by the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Legatus, a group of Catholic business leaders, and Weingartz Supply Company, an Ann Arbor-based business.
The lawsuit aims to permanently block implementation of the Health and Human Services requirement that employees and individuals to obtain insurance coverage that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortion-producing drugs without any cost-sharing. The HHS mandate imposes clear violations of conscience on Americans who morally object to abortion and contraception, the Law Center said in a news release.
The lawsuit also challenges the constitutionality of the HHS mandate under the First Amendment rights to the free exercise of religion and free speech and the Establishment Clause.
Instead of taking up the temporary restraining order requested by the Law Center, Judge Cleland directed the plaintiffs to file a motion for a preliminary injunction by August 15, and he directed the government to file its response by August 29.
Read More at CNS News. By Susan Jones.
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This should not have to go to court.
It should go to court because people have a right to be heard. But, the question is will this judge listen? This government is suppose to be of, the people, by the people and for the people. Unfortunately it’s not that way. The people of Michigan shouldn’t only go after obozo but go after Senators Carl love-me-less Levin and Debbie Stab-us-all-in-the-back Now and the U.S. Reps. like Sandy Levin and Mike Rogers and the rest of them that represents Michigan. I hope they get a fair trial out of this whole thing.
It`s all about sex. sex if fun and it`s done for pleasure. and if you can`t buy a condom or the pill to bad don`t do it. By using a condom or the pill sex serves no purpose other then pleasure. And i object to my tax dollas and insurance premiums being used for anyone pleasure other then mine.