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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Plaintiffs Win Free Exercise Challenge to Washington Plan B Pharmacy Regulations

By Michael Moreland

In a challenge to Washington State's requirement that pharmacists dispense Plan B even where a pharmacist has a religious objection to doing so, the federal district judge ruled today that the pharmacy regulations were neither neutral nor generally applicable and could not survive strict scrutiny review. Judge Ronald Leighton's opinion is here, and the Becket Fund's press release is here

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The intricate and voluminous levels of discretion, exemptions and waivers in Obamacare and the HHS Mandate are the Platonic Form of a law that is not "neutral or generally applicable."