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Multi-state lawsuit over health care law rejected

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published July 19, 2012 at 9:55 AM EDT

A federal judge in Nebraska has rejected a lawsuit by Ohio and six other states challenging the mandate in the federal health care law requiring religious groups to offer contraceptive coverage to their workers. The judge
says the states lack the standing to challenge the rule and questioned whether they would even feel the effects.  The states had argued the rule coerced religious organizations. The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the law.  
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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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