State of Alabama, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (2018)

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, State of Alabama, Plaintiff, v. SECRETARY OF the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Defendants-Appellees.

No. 14-12696-CC

Decided: November 29, 2018

Before: TJOFLAT, JILL PRYOR, and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

Lori Halstead Windham, Daniel Howard Blomberg, Eric C. Rassbach, Mark Rienzi, Diana Verm, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Washington, DC, Stuart Kyle Duncan, Duncan PLLC, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff-Appellant Patrick Nemeroff, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, Bradley Philip Humphreys, Joshua Marc Salzman, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Adam C. Jed, Alisa Beth Klein, Laura Myron, U.S. Attorney General's Office, Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Deborah Jane Dewart, Deborah J. Dewart, Attorney at Law, Swansboro, NC, for Amicus Curiae Liberty, Life and Law Foundation Kimberlee Wood Colby, Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Springfield, VA, Eugene Scalia, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Association of Gospel Rescue Missions, Carmelite Sisters of the Most Sacred Heart of Los Angeles, Association of Christian Schools International, Ave Maria University, Prison Fellowship Ministries, Religious Sisters of Mercy of Alma, Michigan Kimberlee Wood Colby, Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Springfield, VA, Jonathan S. Keim, U.S. Attorney's Office, Huntsville, AL, Carrie Lynn Severino, Judicial Crisis Network, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae National Association of Evangelicals, American Bible Society, Sisters of Life Jonathan S. Keim, U.S. Attorney's Office, Huntsville, AL, Carrie Lynn Severino, Judicial Crisis Network, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention, Mother of the Eucharist, Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, Judicial Education Project Kimberlee Wood Colby, Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Springfield, VA, Jeremiah Grant Dys, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Amicus Curiae Christian Legal Society, Christian and Missionary Alliance Foundation, Inc. Kimberlee Wood Colby, Center for Law & Religious Freedom, Springfield, VA, for Amicus Curiae The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Jeremiah Grant Dys, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Amicus Curiae Alliance Community for Retirement Living, Inc., Town and Country Manor of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Simpson University, Crown College, Alliance Community for Retirement Living, Inc. Megan Arys Kirkpatrick, U.S. Attorney's Office, Montgomery, AL, Jeremiah Grant Dys, First Liberty Institute, Plano, TX, for Amicus Curiae State of Alabama, Alliance Home of Carlisle, Pennsylvania Ayesha N. Khan, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae American Civil Liberties Union, American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama, Americans United for Separation of Church and State