Nearly 300 employers filed a legal brief with the Supreme Court last week arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) – which prevents same-sex couples from enjoying the same tax, retirement and leave benefits that other married couples get under federal law – burdened their businesses with “unnecessary cost and administrative complexity.”

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During the run up to the enactment of the Affordable Care Act, health insurance lobbyists worked hard to have it both ways.

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An earlier post discussed how the U.S. Supreme Court could delay deciding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act until after the next presidential election.

The US Supreme Court announced this week that it will not review a federal district judge’s decision to overturn the individual mandate of the nation’s new healthcare law before an appellate court has a chance to weigh in.

A federal court in Richmond, Virginia declared that the Act

With a federal court in Florida declaring that the personal mandate to purchase health care insurance exceeds Congressional authority, it is certain that the Supreme Court of the United States will have to finally address the issue. Two courts have upheld the mandate and two have invalidated it.

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia has held that the requirement that most Americans obtain health care insurance beginning in 2014 is unconstitutional.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has granted EANJ permission to join a case which will have a big impact on the ability of employers to monitor employee emails.