Happy Tuesday.
The Becket Fund filed the Little Sisters of the Poor's opening brief in the contraception mandate accommodation case at the 10th Circuit last night. Lawgeeks, check it out (PDF). The 7th Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, just denied Notre Dame's request for a preliminary injunction in a similar case on the dubious ground, not even advanced by the Obama administration, that Notre Dame's third-party administrators have to provide the objectionable contraception coverage regardless of whether Notre Dame signs the accommodation form.
Mollie Hemingway reviews the top 12 moments of the "era of austerity."