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Future murky for other mandate challenges

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Religion News Service July 10, 2014

“The death knell is sounding for the HHS mandate,” said Lori Windham, an attorney at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which is representing the Little Sisters of the Poor, as well as other religious groups that object to the Health and Human Services Department policy requiring birth control coverage.

Windham noted that in two rulings by lower courts also June 30, several of Becket’s faith-based clients received last-minute relief to shield them from complying with the mandate.