Corporate
Apr. 12, 2014
Hobby Lobby/Citizens United analogies inherently flawed
Free exercise of religion, unlike free speech, is not at heart a political right. It is instead a right of individual conscience. By Ashutosh Bhagwat
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores last month on whether the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or RFRA, requires the federal government to exempt Hobby Lobby, a for-profit corporation, from certain requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, because of the religious beliefs of Hobby Lobby's owners. Some believe the same conservative majority of the court that st...
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