Please join us in the courtroom for the 2016 Moot Court Semi-Finals arguments.  William Baude, Ryan Doerfler, and Jennifer Nou will judge this year’s competition. The questions for the argument are listed below.  A reception in the Courtroom Hallway will follow the event.

Questions Presented. (1) Whether the availability of a
regulatory method for nonprofit religious employers to comply with the
Department of Health and Human Services’ contraceptive mandate eliminates
either the substantial burden on religious exercise or the violation of RFRA
that this Court recognized in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.; and (2)
whether HHS satisfies RFRA’s demanding test for overriding sincerely held
religious objections in circumstances where HHS itself insists that overriding
the religious objection will not fulfill HHS’s regulatory objective—namely, the
provision of no-cost contraceptives to the objector’s employees.