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  8-justice Supreme Court dodges decision on birth control 

MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
short-handed Supreme
Court dodged but kept
alive a legal challenge
Monday from faith-based
groups over the Obama
administration’s rules for
cost-free access to birth
control. It was the latest
sign of justices struggling
to find a majority for cases
taken up before Justice
Antonin Scalia’s death.
The unsigned, unanimous

In this June 30, 2014 file photo, demonstrators react to hearing the Supreme Court’s decision on the Hobby Lobby birth control
case outside the Supreme Court in Washington.

                                                                                                                                                                     Associated Press 

opinion paved a way out        vative jurist’s death in Feb-   now that women will still   tices asked lower courts to
of a politically thorny dis-   ruary. Yet it hardly settled    continue to be able to get  take another look at the is-
pute for the eight-member      the matter, even if Presi-      contraception.”             sue in search of a compro-
court, which has split twice   dent Barack Obama said          Deciding nothing but per-   mise.
in 4-4 ties since the conser-  the “practical effect is right  haps buying time, the jus-
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