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Perspective

Mar. 27, 2014

A corporation's right to free exercise

To say that corporations can form moral views about ethical or environmental concerns, but not about religious ones, flies in the face of logic. By Michael W. Caspino and Domenic DiNoto


By Michael W. Caspino and Domenic DiNoto


A great deal is at stake when the U.S. Supreme Court hears Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., 723 F. 3d 1114 (10th Cir. 2013), and its companion case Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius, 724 F. 3d 377 (3rd Cir. 2013). This dispute moves far beyond contraception and goes to the heart of the exercise of religious freedom.


In his concurring opinion, U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch of 10th U...

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