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Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014), is a landmark decision [1] [2] in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing privately held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation that its owners religiously object to, if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest, according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom ...
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-141, 107 Stat. 1488 (November 16, 1993), codified at 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb through 42 U.S.C. § 2000bb-4 (also known as RFRA), is a 1993 United States federal law that "ensures that interests in religious freedom are protected." [9] The bill was introduced by Congressman Chuck Schumer ...
Owner. Green family. Number of employees. 43,000+ (2020)[2] Website. www.hobbylobby.com. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., formerly Hobby Lobby Creative Centers, is an American retail company. It owns a chain of arts and crafts stores with a volume of over $5 billion in 2018. [1] The chain has 1,001 stores in 48 U.S. states.
The last major contraception case to go before the Supreme Court was 2014’s Burwell v.Hobby Lobby Stores, in which the Christian owners of the craft empire Hobby Lobby sued the Obama ...
Zubik v. Burwell, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a case before the United States Supreme Court on whether religious institutions other than churches should be exempt from the contraceptive mandate, a regulation adopted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that requires non-church employers to cover certain contraceptives for their ...
The case is a result of prior court actions in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., [1] in 2014, and Zubik v. Burwell, [2] in 2016, which left the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to promulgate new regulations on the mandate.
In the Times story, Rev. Rob Schenck said he learned the outcome of the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores case weeks before the decision was made public. In a 5-4 decision, Alito wrote that some ...
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