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Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania

Supreme Court of the United States

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    In Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court held that federal agencies had statutory authority to issue the challenged contraceptive-coverage exemptions and had satisfied the procedural issue before it; the decision did not hold that the 2017 executive order itself created a blanket constitutional exemption.

    Majority opinion on agency authority and the scope of the Court's holding

    Religious-liberty order led to contraceptive exemptions later upheld on agency authority · Implementing exemptions upheld by the Supreme Court in 2020; later coverage policy continued to change.