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WHEATON COLLEGE v. BURWELL 

SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting 

The applicant contends, by contrast, that the obligations of
its  health  insurance  issuer  and  third-party  administrator 
are dependent on their receipt of notice that the applicant
objects  to  the  contraceptive  coverage  requirement.    But 
the  applicant  has  already  notified  the  Government—
without  using  EBSA  Form  700—that  it  meets  the  re-
quirements for exemption from the contraceptive coverage 
requirement  on  religious  grounds.    Nothing  in  this  order
precludes  the  Government  from  relying  on  this  notice,  to 
the extent it considers it necessary, to facilitate the provi-
sion of full contraceptive coverage under the Act.

In  light  of  the  foregoing,  this  order  should  not  be  con-
strued as an expression of the Court’s views on the merits. 

JUSTICE SCALIA concurs in the result. 

JUSTICE  SOTOMAYOR,  with  whom  JUSTICE  GINSBURG 

and JUSTICE KAGAN join, dissenting. 

The  Patient  Protection  and  Affordable  Care  Act,  124 
Stat.  119,  through  its  implementing  regulations,  requires
employer group health insurance plans to cover contracep-
tive  services  without  cost  sharing.    Recognizing  that  peo-
ple of religious faith may sincerely oppose the provision of
contraceptives, the Government has created certain excep-
tions  to  this  requirement.  Churches  are  categorically 
exempt.  Any religious nonprofit is also exempt, as long as
it  signs  a  form  certifying  that  it  is  a  religious  nonprofit 
that objects to the provision of contraceptive services, and
provides  a  copy  of  that  form  to  its  insurance  issuer  or 
third-party administrator.  The form is simple.  The front 
asks  the  applicant  to  attest  to  the  foregoing  representa-
tions; the back notifies third-party administrators of their
regulatory obligations.

The matter before us is an application for an emergency 
injunction  filed  by  Wheaton  College,  a  nonprofit  liberal
arts college in Illinois.  There is no dispute that Wheaton 
is  entitled  to  the  religious-nonprofit  exemption  from  the