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NOTE TO READERS: Next week the blog will publish a multi-part symposium on the seven cases the Supreme Court will hear this Term on the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act: a protest by religious non-profits arising from the law’s birth-control mandate.
Dr. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service and former Dean at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law. He is also the Founding Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence, which filed an amicus curiae brief in the Hobby Lobby case.
O. Carter Snead is the William P. and Hazel B. Director, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Professor of Law University of Notre Dame. The Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores supplied much-needed clarity on contested questions regarding the scope and substance of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) as applied to for-profit businesses.
Marcia D. Greenberger is co-president of the National Women’s Law Center, which filed an amicus brief in support of the government. There is no doubt that Monday’s majority decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was stunningly bad for women’s health and starkly dismissive of women’s own religious beliefs.
Kent Greenfield is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. Yes, this case is a case about statutory definitions, but it reads as a case about unconstitutional conditions. And because the Court made three fundamental corporate law errors, it got the conditions question wrong.
Travis Weber, J.D., LL.M., is director of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council. FRC filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores.
Kevin Walsh is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law; he was one of the authors of an amicus brief filed on behalf of several Senators in support of Hobby Lobby.
Dawn Johnsen is the Walter W. Foskett Professor of Law at Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law. She co-authored an amicus brief in support of the Government.
The Court’s decision in Hobby Lobby takes pains to emphasize that it is resolving only the dispute before it, but the principles it has adopted will have an obvious impact in other kinds of religious freedom claims in other contexts.
Ayesha N. Khan is Legal Director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. She served as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in Town of Greece, filed an amicus brief in support of the government in Hobby Lobby, and represents female students defending the ACA regulations’ accommodation for religious non-profits against a challenge brought by the University of Notre Dame.
The following contribution to our contraceptive mandate symposium comes from Richard Garnett, professor of law at Notre Dame Law School. Every law student learns and every lawyer knows that there is more to “doing law” than simply looking up or even arguing for the right answers.
The following contribution to our contraceptive mandate symposium comes from Elizabeth B. Wydra, Chief Counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center.