The Supreme Court decision in the Hobby Lobby religious freedom case is important for many reasons; I’ll just cite a couple. First, the precedent set in the law because of the decision will either strengthen or weaken the ability of business owners to run their business according to their ...
There are numerous state or federal laws that prohibit business from discriminating against employees (and potential employees) or their customers on various grounds, including race, sex, religion, disability, familial status, and, more recently, sexual orientation. Some business owners ob...
Tracing the large body of Free Exercise case law and drawing from the Congressional Record, this thesis examines the details of the Hobby Lobby case and the creation of RFRA, both of which have vast implications for the relationship between religion and government in the United States moving ...
I agree with the dissenting opinions in the Hobby Lobby ruling, which say, “If you find your religion being burdened by something so indirect then when does it end?” If religious folks try to withdraw too much from practices of ordinary society—if they push too hard for the right not ...
Accusing the majority of ignoring the “disadvantages that religion-based opt-outs impose on others,” she asserted that “the exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would override significant interests of the corporations’ employees and covered dependents,” and it “would deny legions of wo...
Isn’t Hobby Lobby imposing its religious views on its employees, as some argue? Not at all. The Greens and Hobby Lobby support the individual liberties of all their employees. The company has never imposed its views on employees or made religion a factor in their employment. The Greens were...
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As the dust settles from the Supreme Court decision on Hobby Lobby, one of the most controversial Supreme Court rulings in years, business owners across the country took stock. Some reacted with anger and are discomfited by the heightened prominence of religion in the workplace. Others see ...
Hobby Lobby's owners would feel compelled to compensate its employees for those lost benefits, which would be an additional burden on top of the fine, Windham said. Even if there is a substantial burden on Hobby Lobby, compelling government interests could overrule that. ...
So, Hobby Lobby and my family are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court, but we ...