While partisan gridlock and logistical disputes have stalled preparations for the 2010 health-care law in about two dozen states, more than a dozen others have moved swiftly to set up the insurance marketplaces at the statute’s core. Read full article > >

Link:
State-based insurance marketplaces hang in balance of Supreme Court health-care ruling

The dispute over the Department of Health and Human Services’ new regulations mandating that employers provide contraception coverage has been framed by opponents of the rules as a fight over religious liberty. And so it is. Catholic institutions object that the rules force them to support activities — sterilization and abortion, in addition to contraception — that they view as immoral. It’s like compelling Jehovah’s Witnesses to salute the flag, or Quakers to fight, or Jews to eat pork. That’s why Catholic University, where I am president, joined 42 other plaintiffs this past week in filing suit against HHS . Read full article > >

Original post:
For the government, what counts as Catholic?

There were “failings” in the care of premature twins who died after being given an overdose of morphine, a coroner rules.

See the original post here:
‘Failings’ in twins’ death care

The new federal consumer watchdog agency is considering drafting new rules governing transparency and safety in the rapidly growing market for prepaid cards . Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray said the cards have fewer regulatory protections than bank accounts and debit cards. The agency said it will focus rule-making on three key areas: disclosure of fees and terms, liability for unauthorized transactions and niche product features, such as overdrawing an account. The agency is holding a field hearing on the cards Wednesday in North Carolina. Read full article > >

Follow this link:
Consumer agency to target prepaid cards

Some say that they didn’t break the rules.

Read more:
Secret Service Agents to Appeal

Four Secret Service employees have decided to fight their dismissals for engaging in inappropriate conduct in Colombia last month, a development that could unravel what has been a swift and tidy resolution to an embarrassing scandal over agents’ hiring of prostitutes. Read full article > >

Read the original post:
Secret Service sex scandal: Several say they didn’t break the rules

MSPs call for a crackdown on late-running trains by bringing in tougher rules for services in Scotland.

More here:
Call for crackdown on late trains

The overriding goal of securing the arrest of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin was to get this strange case out of the court of public opinion and into a court of law. All of the conjecture and amateur sleuthing that consumed us for more than a month would give way to real police work and rules of evidence. Yesterday, we got our first look at the evidence that both the prosecution and the defense are examining during the discovery process. They fill in some of the holes in the picture from that rainy night on Feb. 26, but the story remains murky, particularly on one key question. Read full article > >

Read more from the original source:
Jonathan Capehart: Reports on Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman don’t answer one key question

Hurry! The White House, amid the uproar over the General Service Administration’s excessive spending at a fun gathering in 2010 in Las Vegas, has issued new guidelines to curb costs. But don’t let that stop you from a lovely trip to the Alamo! Yes, GSA’s annual training and expo conference is starting Tuesday in historic San Antonio. Read full article > >

Read the original post:
GSA training expo won’t have that Vegas glitz, but it will have the Alamo

In about two dozen states across the country, the insurance marketplaces at the heart of the 2010 health-care law remain in limbo, with Republican governors or lawmakers who oppose the statute refusing to act until the Supreme Court decides its constitutionality. Read full article > >

Read the original here:
Republican state officials stall on setting up health insurance marketplaces

McLaren team-mates Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton join a chorus of drivers calling for clarity on overtaking rules.

Read this article:
Top drivers call for rule clarity

Wladimir Klitschko believes the heavyweight clash between David Haye and Dereck Chisora will be a “freak show under freak rules”.

See original here:
Haye-Chisora will be ‘freak show’

South Africa must investigate Zimbabwean officials over allegations they tortured opposition figures in 2007, a Pretoria high court rules.

Follow this link:
SA ruling over Zimbabwe torture

The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.

Original post:
New rules for US Secret Service

The U.S. Secret Service imposed new rules Friday aimed at tightening oversight of its employees on international trips in the wake of the Colombia prostitution scandal, banning staff from bringing foreigners into their hotel room, drinking alcohol within 10 hours of duty and visiting “non-reputable establishments.” Read full article > >

Visit link:
Secret Service imposes new rules on agents for foreign trips