U.S. top court tosses rulings backing Obamacare contraception coverage

MSN: WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) – The ideologically deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court on Monday failed to resolve a major case involving the Obamacare law’s mandatory birth control coverage, telling lower courts to reconsider the matter after tossing out their rulings favoring President Barack Obama.

With four conservative justices and four liberals, the court did not rule on the merits of the legal challenge by nonprofit Christian employers who objected to the 2010 healthcare law’s requirement that they provide female workers insurance paying for contraceptives.  more