Hobby Lobby
A 9/11 Suspect Is Using the Hobby Lobby Ruling to Argue Female Prison Guards Violate His Rights
Lawyers argue that the new prison guard policy at Guantanamo could put in jeopardy the government's ability to seek the death penalty for certain detainees.
Atheists and Religious Conservatives Battle Over the Right to Preach Politics in Church
An atheist group sued the IRS over its failure to police churches guilty of politicking. They settled, but the religious right is not happy.
Former Hobby Lobby Employee Claims She Was Fired for Having a Kid
Felicia Allen filed a 2012 lawsuit alleging that the company discriminated against her by firing her when she applied for pregnancy leave.
The Satanic Temple Wants to Use Hobby Lobby Against ‘Informed Consent’ Abortion Laws
Informed consent laws require doctors to give state-mandated information that can be inaccurate or misleading to women seeking abortions.
Senate Democrats Want to Crush the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby Decision
The Protect Women’s Health from Corporate Interference Act would restore federally-mandated contraceptive coverage.
The Hobby Lobby Decision Could Help Gitmo Detainees
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees say that the Hobby Lobby decision gives their clients the right to pray communally during Ramadan.
Keep on Writing, Lady Writers. Also, If You Like Contraception, Find a New Place For Your Hobbies
This week in Lady Business, Sarah Ratchford discusses the Supreme Court denying women who want to control their own bodies access to contraception, and a man who blathered for 11,000 words in anger at a young woman's literary success.
Hobby Lobby Is Trying to Bring the Bible to America One Court Battle at a Time
For the billionaire evangelical founders of Hobby Family, Monday's Supreme Court victory was just the beginning of a bigger fight.
A Womb of Her Own: DIY Abortion and Birth Control After Hobby Lobby
In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision that men need Viagra but women don’t need birth control, one reproductive rights activist released a DIY guide to the basics of abortion, birth control, emergency contraception, and more.
Stores Can Be Anti-Abortion Christians, Supreme Court Rules
Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 5–4 decision that Hobby Lobby, a chain of craft stores owned by devout Christians, could deny certain types of birth control to its employees on religious grounds. "The court, I fear, has ventured into a minefield...
Oklahoma School's 'Hobby Lobby Bible Curriculum' Raises Bias Concerns
Steve Green’s outspoken belief in the Bible as literal truth could impact his ability to present it as an objectively academic study.
Can Corporations Find God? Supreme Court Justices Seem to Think So
In a hearing of the Hobby Lobby birth-control case, most of the justices seemed to accept the claim that corporations have religious rights.