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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
Cause of Action: 28:1331 Fed. Question

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Fed. Defs.’ Notice of Supplemental Authority

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PETER D. KEISLER

Assistant Attorney General

SHEILA M. LIEBER

Deputy Branch Director 

JAMES J. GILLIGAN (D.C. Bar No. 422152)

Assistant Director

United States Department of Justice

Civil Division

Federal Programs Branch

P.O. Box 883

Washington, D.C. 20044

(202) 514-3358

(202) 616-8470 (fax)

Attorneys for Defendants

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

(San Francisco Division)

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 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, et al.,

 

Plaintiffs, 

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 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

et al.,

 

Defendants,

 THE ALLIANCE OF CATHOLIC

HEALTH CARE,

Intervenor-Defendants,

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 THE CHRISTIAN MEDICAL

ASSOCIATION, et al.,

Intervenor-Defendants.

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The federal defendants respectfully submit this Notice of Supplemental Authority to

apprise the Court of the current legislative status of the Weldon Amendment.

As the federal defendants observed previously, see Federal Defendants’ Reply to

Plaintiffs’ Opposition to Intervenor-Defendants’ Motions for Summary Judgment (Dkt. No. 116)

at 1 n. 2, the Weldon Amendment, initially enacted as an appropriations provision in November

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2004, was re-enacted in December 2005 as § 508(d), Title V, of the Departments of Labor,

Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006,

Pub. L. 109-149, 119 Stat. 2833, 2879-80 (the “2006 Labor, Health, and Education

Appropriations Act”). That act expired on September 30, 2006, but the Weldon Amendment

remained in effect by virtue of continuing resolutions enacted on September 29, 2006, Pub. L.

109-289, Div. B, §§ 101(a)(6), 103, 106, 120 Stat. 1257, 1311-13; on November 15, 2006,

H.J. Res. 100, 152 Cong. Rec. H8653-01, 152 Cong. Rec. S10954-01; and on December 8, 2006,

H.J. Res. 102, 152 Cong. Rec. H9155-01, H9158, 152 Cong. Rec. S11645-01. 

The last of these continuing resolutions expired by its terms on February 15, 2007, see

H.J. Res. 102, 152 Cong. Rec. H915-01, H9156, but the Weldon Amendment now remains in

effect under the Revised Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007, Pub. L. 110-5, 121 Stat. 8

(the “2007 Revised Appropriations Resolution”) (relevant excerpts attached), enacted by

Congress on February 14, 2007, 153 Cong. Rec. S1953-01; see 153 Cong. Rec. H1071-03,

H1112-13, and signed into law by the President on February 15, see 2007 WL 482677. 

Specifically, the 2007 Revised Appropriations Resolution amends Division B of Public Law

109-289 (the September 29, 2006 continuing resolution, see supra), to extend the appropriations

made under the 2006 Labor, Health, and Education Appropriations Act (among others) through

September 30, 2007. Pub. L. 110-5, § 2, 121 Stat. 8, 9 (amended Pub. L. 109-289, Div. B,

§§ 101(a)(5), 106). By the express terms of the continuing resolution, as amended by the 2007

Revised Appropriations Resolution, these appropriations “shall be made available to the extent

and in the manner” provided in the 2006 Labor, Health, and Education Appropriations Act, and

the “requirements, . . . conditions [and] limitations of [that Act] . . . shall [also] continue in

effect” through September 30. Id. (amended Pub. L. 109-289, Div. B, §§ 102, 104). 

Thus, the Weldon Amendment, as a condition and limitation on federal funds made

available under the 2006 Labor, Health, and Education Appropriations Act, continues in effect,

by the terms of the 2007 Revised Appropriations Resolution, until the end of Fiscal Year 2007.

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Dated: February 28, 2007

Of Counsel:

STEPHEN H. FREID

Acting Assistant General Counsel

AMY LUSTIG

Attorney

United States Department of Education

GARY M. BUFF

Associate Solicitor

GARY K. STEARMAN

Senior Attorney

United States Department of Labor

DANIEL MERON

General Counsel

PAULA M. STANNARD

Deputy General Counsel

DAVID BENOR

Associate General Counsel

MARK MCGINNIS

Senior Attorneys

United States Department of 

 Health and Human Services

Respectfully submitted,

PETER D. KEISLER

Assistant Attorney General

SHEILA M. LIEBER

Deputy Branch Director

 /s/ James J. Gilligan 

JAMES J. GILLIGAN

Assistant Director

United States Department of Justice

Civil Division

Federal Programs Branch

P.O. Box 883

Washington, D.C. 20044

(202) 514-3358 

(202) 616-8470 (fax)

Attorneys for Defendants United States of

America; U.S. Department of Labor; Elaine

Chao, in her official capacity as Secretary of

Labor; U.S. Department of Health and

Human Services; Michael O. Leavitt, in his

official capacity as Secretary of Health and

Human Services; U.S. Department of

Education; and Margaret Spellings, in her

official capacity as Secretary of Education

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