Autocam Corp. v. Burwell

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Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
13-482	6th Cir.	Not Argued	Jul 1, 2014	TBD	TBD	OT 2013

Issue: (1) Whether the petitioners have standing to advance the claim that the mandate by the Department of Health and Human Services requiring them to provide their employees with abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptive drugs or devices, and sterilization violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ("RFRA") by forcing individual business owners to violate their religious beliefs when governing the corporation through which they do business upon pain of ruinous consequences; and (2) whether the mandate imposes a substantial burden on petitioners" exercise of religion within the meaning of the RFRA by coercing them to violate their religious convictions when conducting business upon pain of ruinous consequences.

Judgment: Vacated and remanded on July 1, 2014.

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Petition of the day (Mary Pat Dwyer, November 26, 2013)
UPDATE: Filings on health care law (Lyle Denniston, October 21, 2013)

Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
10/15/2013	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 18, 2013)
10/21/2013	Brief of respondents Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. in opposition filed.
10/29/2013	Brief amici curiae of American Center for Law and Justice and Twenty-One Family Business Owners filed.
11/01/2013	Reply of petitioners Autocam Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
11/04/2013	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of November 26, 2013.
11/04/2013	Supplemental brief of petitioner Autocam Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed)
11/11/2013	Second supplemental brief of petitioners Autocam Corporation, et al. filed. (Distributed).
11/15/2013	Brief amicus curiae of Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence filed. (Distributed)
11/18/2013	Brief amici curiae of Michigan, and Ohio filed.
06/30/2014	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 30, 2014.
07/01/2014	Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED For further consideration in light of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U. S. ___ (2014).
08/04/2014	JUDGMENT ISSUED.