Media Advisory: Oral Argument for East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University Set for November 11, 2013
Media Contact
Ryan Colby 202-349-7219 media@becketlaw.org
Additional Information
Washington, D.C. – Becket will represent East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 11, 2013. East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University are both Christian liberal arts colleges in Texas challenging the HHS mandate. The court will consider whether the Christian universities should be required to provide coverage for abortion-inducing drugs against their religious beliefs.
WHAT:
East Texas Baptist University and Houston Baptist University oral argument before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
WHO:
Eric Rassbach, Deputy General Counsel for Becket for Religious Liberty
WHEN:
10:00 a.m. CDT on November 11, 2013
WHERE:
Courtroom 11B, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
Becket is a non-profit, public-interest law firm dedicated to protecting the free expression of all religious traditions—from Anglicans to Zoroastrians. For 18 years its attorneys have been recognized as experts in the field of church-state law. Becket recently won a 9-0 Supreme Court victory in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, which The Wall Street Journal called one of “the most important religious liberty cases in a half century.”
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