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Walmart Cutting Health Care Coverage for Some Part-Time Workers

Summary: The largest private employer in the United States has announced that it is cutting health coverage for its part-time employees…

CVS Accused of Illegally Charging Women for Birth Control

Summary: Due to an error in CVS’ price-coding system, around 11,000 women were charged for birth control that should have…

Obamacare May be Squashed by a Strict Reading of the Law

  Summary: The legal theory called textualism offers some surprising obstacles for Obamacare that could balk its progress if not…

GOP Hires Hefty and Expensive Lawyers to Take on Obama

Summary: House GOP Hires Lawyer David Rivkin to Challenge Obamacare. Have Republicans gone too far? Many think so, as they…

Legal Experts In Favor of Lawsuit Against the President

A couple of legal scholars recently said that it is a good idea to sue President Obama for overstepping his…

Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Case Against Contraceptive Provision of Affordable Care Act

The Supreme Court Justices had trouble with the question of a private company skirting around a federal law simply by…

Catholic Nuns Get Temporary Relief from Contraceptive Mandate

Acting on an emergency appeal from a group of Catholic nuns, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted a temporary exemption…

Supreme Court to Stay Open Even if Government Shuts Down

  The U.S. Supreme Court has announced on its website that “In the event of a loss of appropriations, the…

Union Backlash Against Obamacare

Obama has had considerable backing from unions these last couple elections, and such political constituents were especially attracted to Obama’s…

New IRS Healthcare Rules Hits Employers Hard

The tentacles of Obamacare are starting to coil around employers now that the Internal Revenue Service has released its proposed…

Hospital Stops Delivering Babies to Cope with Obamacare

The impositions of Obamacare are beginning to be anticipated as businesses and hospitals change the structure of their operation to…

Domino’s Pizza Founder Fights and Wins to not Provide Contraceptive Coverage Under Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act -- sometimes called "Obamacare" -- was upheld this year in the Supreme Court, but that by…