Appellee met with an accident in appellant’s store when her feet became entangled in plastic strips. Appellee alleged that appellant was negligent and claimed…
Hobby Lobby. This case centered around a portion of the Affordable Care Act that required employers to cover certain FDA-approved contraceptives. The owners of Hobby Lobby, the Greene family, are devout Christians and felt that they could not do this due to religious freedom. The court ruled that forcing them to cover contraceptives violated their beliefs, and they could not be forced to comply. Justice Alito claimed that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act applied to corporations, and forcing Hobby Lobby to comply was burdening them. Ginsburg replied to this with a 35-page dissent paper and forced it to be delivered to the press. The opening line to her set the tone for the entire paper “[i]n a decision of startling breadth, the Court holds that commercial enterprises, including corporations, along with partnerships and sole proprietorships, can opt out of any law (saving only tax laws) they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs.” (Ginsburg…
District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and filed a lawsuit. The district court denied Hobby Lobby’s request for a preliminary injunction. In March 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit allowed a hearing of the case. In June the appeals court sided with Hobby Lobby and said that a company had the same rights of a person and could restrict women’s access to contraception on religious grounds. In September the US appealed to the US Supreme Court.…
Facts: Hobby Lobby is a family owned arts and crafts store that runs on Christian principles. The companies statement of purpose is “honoring the Lord in all [they] do by operating the company in a manner consistent with Biblical principles.” The family does not believe in the use of contraception but under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the company is required to offer a minimum coverage health care plan that includes forms of contraception. The plaintiffs filed suit to challenge the requirement to provide contraceptive method to their employees under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the First Amendment (Free Exercise…
I completely agree with the opinion that the Hobby Lobby case is justified. The new interpretation that religion can also pertain to private corporations due to the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment. This allows for Hobby Lobby to deny birth control to employees. However, as many have stated before, the employees’ individual rights to birth control have to be respected as well. Just because the corporation itself does not believe in the birth control, this does not mean the corporation can ignore the workers’ rights to have birth control. Thus, I believe that Hobby Lobby is able to defer birth control payments to the federal government because employees that seek birth control are still able to receive it. However, in recitations,…
In 2012, a family called the Greens ran Hobby Lobby, which is a craft store. This family are Christians and have strong faith in what they believe in. Being a very religious family, that they believe that giving or promoting contraceptives, will make them seem as if they are going against their own belief (Oyez, 2013). Contraceptives are artificial methods or various techniques to prevent pregnancy due to sexual intercourse, so the Greens family refuse to provide those things to their workers. This is where the Greens family is furious to give these types of protection to their workers, so they sued.…
16 out of the total 20 contraceptives were available on the plan in which Hobby Lobby offered and they maintained a religious enterprise throughout; the court finding that Hobby Lobby did indeed have a history of sincere religious beliefs that conflicted with the statutes of the mandate in question. Moreover, Hobby Lobby was found to be burdened financially in either course of action. The government argued that it was in the compelling interest of the governed to discount the burdens placed on the religious to accommodate a very miniscule minority which would be effected. To sum up the case briefly, the court decided that the burden created of violating religious freedom outweighed any economic burden that would arise out of Hobby Lobby being exempt from providing 4 contraceptives out of 20 total that the ACA mandated. Furthermore, the court decided that accommodations for the religious frequently operate by lifting burdens and placing them…
Hobby Lobby, 2014). There is a blurry, but definite line where our rights can be obscured by other Amendment's purposes to help us as well. With Hobby Lobby's founders, the Green family, beliefs in certain contraceptive methods that are “abortifacients”, like RU-486, and the priority of giving employees the right accommodations to their liking, there can be some disagreement. The Green family was faced with a complicated problem where they had to choose to either “violate the law or violate their faith”. As individuals, one should put themselves in other perspectives to understand how these disagreements cause conflict in keeping the free exercise of religion…
they consider to be an abortifacient. I do believe that respecting one’s religious beliefs is…
In the article titled " Hobby Lobby Ruling Much More than Abortion" discusses the supreme court ruling regarding abortion and birth control. The author expressed that family owned businesses have been ruled in court to opt out of the federal requirement to pay for birth control in health coverage for their workers. The family owned business did not feel it was fair to follow the recent mandate by President Obama regarding contraceptives. Hobby Lobby was targeted by social media for being unfair and not giving freedom a chance based on their religious beliefs. Several people backing Hobby Lobby's philosophies stated they do not force people to work there. If a person chooses to not abide by Hobby Lobby's belief's, they do not have to choose…
The harm that women could suffer from abortion was never really considered in the Roe v. Wade case. Abortion was viewed as being synonymous with good health, and the only harm to consider for women was not being allowed to have an abortion. The presumption that Roe consulted with a physician to gain medical guidance was important evidence leading the Court to believe it was an informed decision. “Assumptions about doctor-patient counseling were an important part of the Court’s rationale for extending constitutional privacy rights to abortion” (Adams, 2005, p.335). Roe used the burden of unwanted pregnancy as an argument, stating that the child would not be cared for because it is unwanted and that childcare would be taxing on the mother’s mental…
On Friday, 57 year old Robert Lewis Dear killed 3 people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The man brought duffle bags full of weapons to the clinic such as handguns, rifles, and propane tanks and proceeded to shoot at random at the people inside and surrounding the building. Their is no explanation behind why the Planned Parenthood clinic was targeted, but Dear had told investigators “no more baby parts” after his arrest. This leads investigators to believe he was acting on an anti-abortion agenda (Coffman). A policeman and two civilians were killed in the attack, and several more people were injured. Dear was taken in before a judge over video feed from the prison on Monday. Dear was wearing a protective vest to prevent him from harming himself when he appeared in front the court. Standing along with him in the video was public defender Daniel King who was representing him. King was also on the defense team for the Colorado movie shooter James Holmes. The only time Dear talked during the appearance was to answer questions the judge provided. They only things discussed were what charges were placed upon…
In this world there are at least two sides to every story. The opposite sides are not necessarily good or bad, but different from each other. One of these "stories" is the story of abortion. Abortion is defined as the destruction or termination of a fetus while still in the mother's womb. However, abortion is so much more then just the definition. There are consequences. There are two sides: pro-life and pro-choice. There is controversy over which is the correct way to go. Personally knowing people who have chosen opposite sides on this one particular topic makes it one that truly means a lot to me as a writer.…
An essay written by Larry Bohannon. This essay briefly explains the realities of abortion, and is written for college students and young adults.…
It is good to have a decrease in population because when population of a country increases, it may lead to decrease in the national income and economic growth, and increase in unemployment.…