Hobby Lobby, the arts-and-crafts chain whose devout Christian owners won a landmark Supreme Court ruling on religious freedom, is caught up in an antiquities-smuggling scandal that has opened the company to accusations of hypocrisy. The Oklahoma City-based businessagreed to pay a $3 million fin...
The Hobby Lobby case just argued before the U.S. Supreme Court will be as important as Citizens United, says Wharton professor Eric Orts, who suggests that it will significantly expand or constrain the influence that corporations have on American life.KnowledgeWharton...
Hobby Lobby made national headlines in 2014 when it won a challenge against an Affordable Care Act provision that required it to cover the costs of employees’ contraception, which it said violated its religious beliefs. U.S. Stock Market Quotes ...
Prosecutors say Hobby Lobby was warned by its own expert that acquiring antiquities from Iraq carried “considerable risk” because so many of the artifacts
Hobby Lobby was founded by David Green in 1970, and since then, the family has built a fortune worth billions. The Greens are devout evangelical Christians; Hobby Lobby famously won a Supreme Court case in 2014 over the Greens' religious objections to a birth control mandate in the Affordable...
“Hobby Lobby has cooperated with the government throughout its investigation, and with the announcement of today’s settlement agreement, is pleased the matter has been resolved.” The company said it began acquiring historic religious artifacts to preserve them for future generations and to pr...
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Religious FactorsRestricting public employees' free exercise rights or the State to maintain neutrality toward religion has been longstanding precedent in the United States. It has certainly been the case in US public schools beginning in the 1940s and affirmed through the courts over and again ...
role in the smuggling of the artifacts, which authorities say were looted from the war-torn country.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials in Washington handed over the artifacts Wednesday to Iraq's ambassador to the U.S., Fareed Yasseen.How did Hobby Lobby acquire the artifacts?Pr...
As is the case for some religious companies, Hobby Lobby stores across the nation are closed on Sundays to allow “associates time for family and for worship,” thecompany states on its website. The chain’s owners, the Green family, also own a Christian bookstore and educational supply cha...