Legal Opinion
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 27, 2013No. 12-6294PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to determine whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause protect the plaintiffs — two companies and their owners who run their businesses to reflect their religious values. The companies are Hobby Lobby, a craft store chain, and Mardel, a Christian bookstore chain. Their owners, the Greens, run both companies as closely held family businesses and operate them according to a set of Christian principles. They contend regulations implementing the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act force them to violate…
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3Cited by202 opinions
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