Reports trickling in from the Supreme Court hearing on Zubik v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (PPACA) contraception mandate, suggest that the high court will likely deadlock, 4-4, on the case.
This could mean that the suit, brought by David Zubik, a Catholic bishop in Pittsburgh and 30 other religious groups, will likely not be resolved.
As a result, the conflicting rulings from more than half a dozen lower courts on similar suits will stand, leaving in place a variety of different interpretations to the contraception mandate.
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