Zubik v. Burwell

Zubik v. Burwell
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 23, 2016 Decided May 16, 2016
Full case name	David A. Zubik et al. v. Sylvia Burwell, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
Docket no.	14-1418
Citations	578 U.S. ___ (more) 136 S. Ct. 1557; 194 L. Ed. 2d 696
Opinion announcement	Opinion announcement
Court membership
Chief Justice John Roberts Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito · Sonia Sotomayor Elena Kagan
Case opinions
Per curiam
Concurrence	Sotomayor, joined by Ginsburg
Laws applied
Affordable Care Act, Religious Freedom Restoration Act

Zubik v. Burwell, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case before the United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation adopted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires non-church employers to cover certain contraceptives for their female employees. Churches are already exempt under those regulations.^[1] On May 16, 2016, the Supreme Court vacated the Court of Appeals ruling in Zubik v. Burwell and the six cases it had consolidated under that title and returned them to their respective courts of appeals for reconsideration.