Two District Courts Block Trump Administration's Final ACA Contraceptives Rules | Practical Law
Two federal district courts have issued injunctions, in separate cases, blocking implementation of final regulations issued by the Trump Administration in November 2018 under the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) contraceptives mandate. The regulations, which finalized interim final regulations issued in October 2017, expanded an existing religious exemption to the ACA's contraceptives mandate and added a moral convictions exemption. The latter of the two rulings, issued by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on January 14, 2019, granted a nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the final regulations.