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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 ...
On June 30, 2014, the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), closely held for-profit corporations are exempt from the contraceptive mandate, if they object on religious grounds, because the accommodation offered to objecting non-profits would be a less restrictive way to ...
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. 617 (2018), was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States that addressed whether owners of public accommodations can refuse certain services based on the First Amendment claims of free speech and free exercise of religion, and therefore be granted an exemption from laws ensuring non-discrimination in public ...
Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius, 723 F.3d 1114 (10th Cir. 2013): The court found for-profit corporations Hobby Lobby and Mardel Christian Bookstores could assert religious freedom as "persons" under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. [9] Judge Tymkovich wrote for the five-judge en banc majority, over a three-judge dissent. [10]
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.
Genoa Township Manager Kelly VanMarter confirmed in May that Hobby Lobby signed a tentative lease to take over a portion of the former Carson's in Grand River Plaza. A permit for facade upgrades ...
The store will become the anchor for the shopping center. The Hobby Lobby store will occupy two large spaces, a 40,945-square foot space previously occupied by Lowes Foods and a 12,000-square foot ...
In Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius (2013), Gorsuch wrote a concurrence when the en banc circuit found the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate on a private business violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. [59] That ruling was upheld 5–4 by the Supreme Court in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014). [60]