Bloomberg
by Andrew Zajac
January 25, 2013

A Catholic Church lawsuit challenging the birth-control mandate in the Obama Administration’s health-care overhaul was thrown out by a federal judge who said it’s too early to hear the dispute.

Regulations governing the provision of birth control in the law are likely to be supplanted by new rules, making it premature to decide the case now, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman

Jackson in Washington decided today in a case filed by the Archdiocese of Washington and four other Catholic nonprofit groups.

“If after the new regulations are issued, plaintiffs are still not satisfied, any challenges that they choose to bring will be substantially different from the challenges in the current complaint,” Jackson wrote.

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