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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 ...
ADF also litigated a 2014 case challenging the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. In Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., the Court ruled that the birth control mandate in employee-funded health plans was unconstitutional, since there existed a less restrictive means of furthering the law’s interest. [5]
Following the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby decision, many states have proposed expanding state RFRA laws to include for-profit corporations, [16] [17] including in Arizona where SB 1062 passed by in Arizona but vetoed by Jan Brewer in 2014.
Individual opinion counts will not match the Court's totals; Breyer and Kagan's jointly authored dissent in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. is counted separately for both justices but counted only once in the Court's totals.
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 ...
Duncan argued two cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, and has acted as lead counsel in numerous other cases in that Court, including Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 134 S.Ct. 2751 (2014), in which he successfully led litigation challenging the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate on behalf of Hobby Lobby stores. [1]
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Doe v. Shurtleff, 628 F.3d 1217 (10th Cir. 2010): State law requiring sex offenders to register their internet identifiers with the state upheld as constitutional. Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 723 F.3d 1114 (10th Cir. 2013): Corporation is a person who has religious freedom.