Hobby Lobby Asks High Court To Grant Petition, Affirm Birth Control Ruling

• 10-23-2013
  10:45
  AM
• Author:

  
  Mealeys
  

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Owners of a craft store chain and Christian bookstore on Oct. 21 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant the federal government’s petition for writ of certiorari in their suit challenging the birth control mandate contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) but said the high court should affirm the lower court’s decision granting a preliminary injunction (Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., et al. v. Kathleen Sebelius, et al., No. 13-354, U.S. Sup.).