Reports trickling in from the Supreme Court hearingon Zubik v. Burwell, the latest challenge to thePatient Protection and Affordable CareAct’s (PPACA) contraception mandate, suggest that thehigh court will likely deadlock, 4-4, on the case.

This could mean that the suit, brought by David Zubik, aCatholic bishop in Pittsburgh and 30 other religious groups, willlikely not be resolved.

As a result, the conflicting rulings from more than half a dozenlower courts on similar suits will stand, leaving in place avariety of different interpretations to the contraception mandate.

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