Judge Blocks Trump Plan to Revoke Obamacare Contraceptive Rule
- Ruling only applies in 13 states in lawsuit led by California
- Dispute over employer health rules may go to Supreme Court
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The Trump administration’s effort to let companies with religious or moral objections opt out of Obamacare requirements that they offer free contraception coverage in their employee health care plans hit a road block in a California court on the eve of the new rules taking effect.
U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland issued a preliminary injunction against the final rules for the new Affordable Care Act exemption on Sunday, though he limited it to the 13 states that sued, plus the District of Columbia.