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Decision could happen? >> reporter: it could happen this weekend or early next week. now, under obamacare, its a mandate for nonprofit religious-based organizations to provide birth control to their workers. unless, and this is really the key here, they sign a form that expresses their objections and also allow a third-party insurer to provide that coverage. churches, and houses of worship, theyre exempt from the mandate. this week, a home for the elderly, run by catholic nuns in denver, asked t...

Lines. this week, the beckett fund for religious liberty successfully got a supreme court injunction in hopes of extempting their client, little sisters of the poor, from providing birth control coverage to their employees. obama has said the nuns could avoid having to offer contraception coverage by signing a form offered by the government. they say that is unacceptable. today in its filing with the supreme court, the obama administration urged the court to reject the lawsuit. in the meantime, ...

Over what it means to fill out a government form. the way the government sees this, is what theyre asking these religious organizations to do is simply decline to cover contraception because they have religious objections to it. and that allows their insurance provider to provide the contraception coverage to provide birth control coverage or not. the way the little sisters view it, they view it as something of a permission slip. this is, again, a fight over whether this is -- this is a religiou...

Now. why wait? he obama administration called on a supreme court justice to reinstate part of president obamas healthcare overhaul. a rule centered around religious groups health insurance plans which provide contraception coverage. remember, a group of nuns in denver has challenged the rule. on tuesday, justice sonia sotomayor temporarily blocked it, and today the justice department issued its formal response arguing that religious organizations can opt out of the mandate to provide birth con...

Through the system that the white house and that the administration have set up to try to do that, they still feel their religious liberty is impinged upon, even if a third party provides coverage. i think the white house is saying, look, we did everything we could. weve taken this out of your hands, put it in somebody elses hands, and theyre still getting lawsuits. well see what the actual governments response is to justice sotomayor probably sometime tomorrow morning. >> erin, i know on our we...

Basically that they dont want to cover birth control on their insurance plan. the obama administration has said, fine, just fill out this form saying that youre not going to do that. they have then said, filling out that form is still infringing on my religious liberty. thats the question the court is going to have to figure out in the next couple of days or theyre going to kick it back to the lower courts. >> seems like such an odd catch 22 that were dealing with. thats specifically for nonprof...

>> sure. there the beginning what planned parent hood has been focused on is making sure womens health care is covered by the affordable care act. as you know 99% of women in this country use birth control in this country. this is a health care issue and an economic issue. we have been very focused and very focused in talking about this because, again, the supreme court is going to have to decide whether or not for-profit companies, multimillion dollar companies, can decide they want to not actu...

Little sisters of the poor. >> yeah. look, the big question is -- can a large for-profit company like hobby lob write, which brought the law sxut the case will be before the supreme court because of the ceos personal objections to birth control, can he decide to deny birth control coverage for thousands of his employees? that to me is a question of what is fair? it is -- women -- at hobby lobby or other for-profit companies should be treated like all other women in america and make sure they can...

Back new years eve with emergency supreme court ruling delaying a mandate on birth control coverage. lets bring in senior white house correspondent jim acosta. is it a setback or politically something that theyre happy to fight? >> i am not sure it is a fight they want to have, but a fight they have now, dana. one thing we can say, the white house is standing firm behind the contraception coverage mandate, in response to legal action taken by one of president obamas own supreme court picks. >> r...

Mind terribly keeping your voice down? please, would you mind terribly, im trying to sleep, do keep your voice down. >> i predict a new type of human bubble shield, right, that the airlines are going to implement. >> a new kind of noise-canceling headphones. >> i think public approbrium will be eventually heaped on those who talk loud volumes. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. airlines keep changing and not in the right direction. for more stories, give me 60 seconds on the time. its "money tim...