• In January 2005, with the support of Governor Brian Schweitzer, tobacco control advocates successfully lobbied to increase the MSA allocation for tobacco use prevention to $6.8 million per year in the 2006-2007 biennium. (who.int)
  • Hobby Lobby explained in a statement that its Green family owners 'have no moral objection to providing 16 of the 20 FDA-approved contraceptives required under the HHS mandate and do so at no additional cost to employees under their self-insured health plan. (christianitytoday.com)
  • After more than 80 lawsuits from hundreds of concerned Christian groups (among other plaintiffs), today the U.S. Supreme Court is finally poised to pick one of the many challenges to the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate. (christianitytoday.com)
  • CT has chronicled the many legal developments regarding the contraceptive mandate, including most recently on the nonprofit side where a court ruled that the mandate splits religion into worship or good works. (christianitytoday.com)
  • From a father in Missouri who's looking to keep his daughters from accessing birth control , to the refusal of key contraception mandate plaintiffs to accept the Obama administration's latest "accommodation," the Hobby Lobby decision continues to reverberate. (salon.com)
  • But while the Green family who filed the Hobby Lobby suit objecting to the mandate are evangelical Christians, the road to Hobby Lobby wasn't paved by the Christian Right. (salon.com)
  • WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court heard Tuesday morning oral arguments for two challenges to the Affordable Care Act's mandate that requires employers to include birth control in their employee health plans. (pjmedia.com)
  • I predict that the United States Supreme Court is going to strike down the contraception mandate because they are going to say, 'the federal government does not have the authority to force people to violate their faith particularly when they are granting exemptions to every other powerful interest,'" he said. (pjmedia.com)
  • Hobby Lobby owners contend that the ACA contraception mandate imposes a substantial burden on them because failure to comply results in big fines - $26 million a year for Hobby Lobby if it opts out of providing insurance altogether. (kcur.org)
  • Additionally, the Court may have only ruled on the contraception mandate today, but there is no reason to believe the implications of this decision will be limited to that issue. (interfaithalliance.org)
  • This decision is the first one in which the Court has ruled in favor of a for-profit company presenting a case to defend religious freedom, and deals a blow to the Obama Administration's signature legislation, taking away a fundamental element of the mandate that employer health plans cover certain types of contraception at no cost to the employee. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote most of the opinion for the Affordable Care Act case, finding the contraceptive mandate in its current form "unlawful", but the four liberal justices on the court dissented. (globalflare.com)
  • Washington, D.C. - At midnight tonight more than 50 briefs will be filed in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Hobby Lobby Stores and the Green family, supporting their challenge to the HHS mandate. (becketlaw.org)
  • Becket represents Hobby Lobby and David and Barbara Green, owners of the family business, and is the leading resource on all HHS Affordable Care Act mandate cases. (becketlaw.org)
  • Hobby Lobby, the Christian-owned company that provides hobby, arts and crafts supplies to tens of millions of customers across America, will defy the Obamacare mandate that health insurance for its employees cover "abortion-inducing drugs. (wnd.com)
  • Hobby Lobby's case against the mandate remains pending in a lower court, but the statement from the attorney, who is with the Becket Fund, was released after an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected. (wnd.com)
  • The government … represented to the court that it would never enforce [the mandate] in its current form against the appellants or those similarly situated as regards contraceptive services," said an order released by U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. (wnd.com)
  • WASHINGTON - Interfaith Alliance president Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy called today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in Hobby Lobby Stores and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp v. Sebelius a "grave error" and raised serious concerns about its impact on our understanding of religious freedom. (interfaithalliance.org)
  • Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5-4 ruling in favor of Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. that the individual religious liberty of Americans shall not be surrendered simply because they decide to open a business. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • In the narrow Court finding, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh (conservatives) joined more Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson (liberal). (networklobby.org)
  • It was unexpected because Supreme Court decisions on the Voting Rights Act in the last decade have cut back harshly on the VRA's effectiveness , and recent statements by various Justices suggested willingness to further, if not decisively, diminish its protections for voters of color. (networklobby.org)
  • Justices will consider cases of Hobby Lobby (which won) and Conestoga Wood Specialties (which lost). (christianitytoday.com)
  • Nevertheless, in a bitterly divided oral argument in Hobby Lobby , a number of the Court's conservative Justices seemed inclined to read the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) to revolutionize free exercise law and create religious exemptions for secular businesses never recognized by any other court in our Nation's history before this case. (blogspot.com)
  • Paul Clement, the former U.S. solicitor general (who argued on the government's behalf before the Supreme Court from 2004-2008), will actually be answering questions from the justices. (politicmo.com)
  • While this decision is a setback for diversity efforts in Michigan, it is important to note that this case did not address the merits of race-conscious admissions, which have been previously upheld by the court, as the justices emphasized in today's ruling,' said Leticia Smith-Evans, interim director of the Education Group at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. (commondreams.org)
  • In fact, several of the justices at the October 6 Supreme Court oral argument in United States v. Zubaydah referred to his treatment as "torture. (consortiumnews.com)
  • After the Supreme Court engaged in an extensive back-and-forth exchange about the parameters of the state secrets privilege, Justices Stephen Breyer, Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor all insisted that Zubaydah himself, who was an eyewitness to his torture, should be allowed to testify instead of the psychologists at the Polish proceeding. (consortiumnews.com)
  • Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito stated that Hobby Lobby would have faced fines of $475 million per year and Conestoga $33 million for excluding some forms of birth control from their health plans. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • The entertainment lobby is also pressuring Canadian officials to undo statutory damages changes from Bill C-11 that created a liability cap of $5,000 for non-commercial infringement. (eff.org)
  • The Lobbying Disclosure Act says "public confidence in the integrity of government" will increase when "the identity and the extent of the efforts of paid lobbyists to influence federal officials" is disclosed. (publicintegrity.org)
  • This decision gives donors, athletic officials, and alumni unencumbered access to university officials when lobbying for their constituents, however completely shuts out supporters of greater diversity on campus from the admissions process,' said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan. (commondreams.org)
  • Sonya Sotomayor, who responds to emergency actions to the Supreme Court from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, simply told the company that officials could pay up for the abortifacients or face crushing penalties while its case continues in the lower courts. (wnd.com)
  • Colson, who helped lobby to introduce the 3-point shot to men's college basketball during a 34-year coaching career that included stops at Fresno State, New Mexico and Pepperdine, died Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (kfor.com)
  • Lobbying Allowed Insurers to Charge Docs $ to Receive Payments Online: Report - Medscape - August 21, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • KAISER HEALTH NEWS - In a 5-4 decision Monday, the Supreme Court allowed a key exemption to the health law's contraception coverage requirements when it ruled that closely held, for-profit businesses could assert a religious objection to the Obama administration's regulations. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • A: Hobby Lobby and Conestoga are family owned, and they said that the health law's contraception requirement violated their religious views . (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • The law's "full public disclosure of lobbying" section requires lobbyists to file disclosures electronically and do so quarterly instead of semiannually. (publicintegrity.org)
  • This Supreme Court case was the first major challenge to the Affordable Care Act since the court upheld the law's individual requirement to buy health insurance two years ago. (globalflare.com)
  • Since the 2013 Supreme Court decision, Shelby v. Holder, voting rights have eroded steadily in the U.S., especially in Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities - often in southern or red states - where suppression efforts by state legislators have created obstacles to the fundamental right to vote. (networklobby.org)
  • That is, until a recent Supreme Court decision. (networklobby.org)
  • The Supreme Court's decision in Allen v. Milligan stunned legal experts and voting rights advocates. (networklobby.org)
  • In a 5-4 decision, the Court affirmed lower court rulings that the Alabama state legislature violated the Voting Rights Act (VRA) when it brazenly redistricted the state's congressional districts in 2021. (networklobby.org)
  • Last week's decision means that Alabama must now redraw its congressional map consistent with the Supreme Court's reasoning and in a manner that almost surely establishes two majority-Black congressional districts. (networklobby.org)
  • The oral argument in Hobby Lobby was billed as a critical test of whether the Court's conservative wing would double down on the decision in Citizens United and extend religious free exercise rights to secular for-profit corporations - businesses that cannot pray and lack a religious conscience in any meaningful sense of those words. (blogspot.com)
  • Chief among them is the Court determining that all corporations are covered under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which indicates that this decision could eventually move beyond closely held corporations. (interfaithalliance.org)
  • Hawley - who had previously clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts and had argued four cases before the court - said the Supreme Court made a rare, late decision to add an additional 30 minutes of time to the case, signaling their significant interest in it. (politicmo.com)
  • January 2, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On Dec. 31, the Supreme Court of Montana issued a split decision in which it denied victory to Compassion & Choices on its quest for a right to "aid in dying" based on the Montana State Constitution. (lifesitenews.com)
  • In another 5-4 decision has handed a victory to Hobby Lobby. (opednews.com)
  • In a case that could have had devastating effect upon unions, the Court, by a slim, five to four decision, allowed the continued existence of government unions. (opednews.com)
  • The final decision came down to a 5-4 ruling, in favor of the Hobby Lobby case. (globalflare.com)
  • In Bruce James Abramski, Jr., Petitioner V. United States, the court affirmed, in a 5 to 4 decision, the conviction of Ambramski of knowingly making false statements "with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale" of a gun. (cleverpeasants.com)
  • Edward Buthusiem discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. (thinkbrg.com)
  • Within the next several days, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue its decision regarding whether the government can require Hobby Lobby to provide abortion-inducing contraceptives in its health plan, notwithstanding Hobby Lobby's religious objection to abortion. (lexology.com)
  • The Supreme Court's decision will likely have important implications for nonprofit religious organizations. (lexology.com)
  • Although the Supreme Court's decision regarding Hobby Lobby will not expressly determine whether broad religious exemptions apply in each of these areas, it very likely will set a legal foundation to support either broad or narrow exemptions. (lexology.com)
  • After the Supreme Court issues its decision, we will provide an analysis of the decision's actual impact on religious organizations. (lexology.com)
  • In a 6-2 decision today, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court and ruled that Michigan's Proposal 2 is constitutional. (commondreams.org)
  • The New York Times is being criticized for having double standard by allowing a full-page ad by the Freedom from Religion Foundation against the Catholic Church in response to the Hobby Lobby decision, while the newspaper had rejected an "anti-Muslim" ad in 2012. (christianpost.com)
  • But on Thursday, the Times carried an FFRF ad denouncing "all-male, all-Roman Catholic majority" on the Supreme Court for its decision in the Hobby Lobby case. (christianpost.com)
  • The decision from the federal appeals court in Washington comes in a case brought by Wheaton College of Illinois and Belmont Abbey College. (wnd.com)
  • In a historic decision, Brazil's Supreme Court has voted down the agricultural lobby's attempt to limit Indigenous People's land rights. (lu.se)
  • Torsten Krause fears that the decision from the Supreme Court may mean that deforestation for agriculture and mining increases in Brazil's neighboring countries. (lu.se)
  • Since the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, hundreds of laws, federal and state, have been proposed or passed, making this the most actively litigated and highly publicized area in the field of medicine. (medscape.com)
  • The Supreme Court is going to render a decision on the Affordable Care Act any day now. (medscape.com)
  • The judicial doctrine requires a law to be narrowly tailored and to meet a compelling state interest in order for it to be upheld by the court. (politicmo.com)
  • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined religious freedom activists who had spent the cold, snowy morning in Washington demonstrating in support of Hobby Lobby and the other plaintiffs in the case. (pjmedia.com)
  • The methods and devices at issue before the Supreme Court were those the plaintiffs say can work after conception. (globalflare.com)
  • When proposals to divert the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) funds to non-health related programs were made in 1999, tobacco control advocates directly lobbied the legislature to allocate money to health programs. (who.int)
  • However, health advocates successfully defeated HB 758 with a lawsuit in December 2004 when the Montana Supreme Court held that it was invalid. (who.int)
  • Update: The Supreme Court has agreed to hear appeals by Hobby Lobby, an evangelical-owned craft chain which won in the Tenth Circuit, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Mennonite-owned woodworking company which lost in the Third Circuit. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Obama had previously nominated Garland, a chief justice of the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to fill the seat of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died suddenly last winter. (21stcenturywire.com)
  • In 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found Proposal 2 unconstitutional for placing an unfair burden on those seeking to have race considered as one of many factors in university admissions. (commondreams.org)
  • While the judges at the 10th Circuit had rejected the company's request, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals earlier handed Christians a major victory against Obama, who previously has supported extreme abortion - to the point of advocating that babies who survive abortions be left to die. (wnd.com)
  • Our side based our arguments on statute, primarily…and when you listen to the questions and answers, the court is very respectful of Congress setting policy through statute. (pjmedia.com)
  • However, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress is simultaneously maintaining a tie to a top firearms industry lobbying group, helping to bolster its image among the nation's elites. (truthout.org)
  • Since 1937, the Court has allowed Congress a very free hand in enacting social and economic legislation. (motherjones.com)
  • Polls consistently show that term limits are popular with people across both political parties, but the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that imposing term limits would be adding a qualification to be a member of Congress and that can only be done by constitutional amendment. (alreporter.com)
  • Those cases, however, had to do with sole proprietorships, not corporations like Hobby Lobby. (politicmo.com)
  • In one of the most unprecedented supreme court cases in recent years, Hobby Lobby has just won a major victory for religious freedoms for corporations. (globalflare.com)
  • Methods: it was a jurisprudential study in which the entire content of the direct actions of unconstitutionality submitted to the Federal Supreme Court,which discuss the constitutionality of Law n. 14.026/2020, as well as other judicial review cases related to the subject. (bvsalud.org)
  • Pro-life supporters with Concerned Women for America celebrate the Hobby Lobby victory at the Supreme Court on June 30. (globalflare.com)
  • It was the ultimate insiders' play," Warren says of the lobbying action during Congressional discussions of financial reform: "Trust us because we understand it and you don't. (courthousenews.com)
  • It was the Catholic Church, more specifically the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference, that largely engineered Hobby Lobby to block the legitimization of contraception as a standard health insurance benefit-a last ditch effort to prevent by law what it couldn't prevent from the pulpit: women from using birth control. (salon.com)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in the latest challenge to the Obama health care overhaul. (kcur.org)
  • As liberal elites and their student acolytes accused President-Elect Donald J. Trump of being a 'fascist', Hollywood elites were themselves pushing actual fascist directives, the worst of which had to be singer Barbra Streisand's insistence that lame duck president Barack Obama bypass the US Senate and appoint a liberal Supreme Court Justice unilaterally . (21stcenturywire.com)
  • The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in what is known as the Hobby Lobby case, a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration over a provision of the federal health care law mandating insurance plans cover many forms of contraceptive care. (politicmo.com)
  • Can Obama Beat the Israel Lobby? (thenation.com)
  • President Barack Obama will visit the University of Chicago Law School on Thursday to discuss his Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, with students and faculty. (nbcchicago.com)
  • Obama nominated the fellow Chicago native to the Supreme Court at a White House Rose Garden ceremony in March. (nbcchicago.com)
  • By ending this scrutiny, the Court eliminated that the VRA's most effective tool for protecting voting rights in states with a history of voter suppression and intimidation. (networklobby.org)
  • Litigation alleging violations of Section 2 of the VRA is already ongoing in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, challenging the recent redistricting of those states' Congressional maps, and the outcomes of these cases will now be subject to the Supreme Court's new ruling. (networklobby.org)
  • The ruling also covers a Hobby Lobby subsidiary, the Mardel Christian book stores. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court today dealt a serious blow to the gun lobby, ruling against a challenge to federal law which forbids misrepresenting the identity of the actual gun buyer or so-called straw man gun purchase. (cleverpeasants.com)
  • In her wide-ranging interview, she goes on to discuss her concerns for women's reproductive rights , why she's not going to step down, despite some calls from the left for her to do so, her scathing dissent on the Hobby Lobby ruling and life as "Notorious R.B.G. (motherjones.com)
  • On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) moved to bring up Democrats' bill to overturn the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling. (talkingpointsmemo.com)
  • Late last week the ruling from the highest court in the land came down Massachusetts' buffer zone around abortion clinics preventing protest, prayer, speech of any kind within that 35 ft. radius went too far. (indiemusicnews.com)
  • Not so, says former Bush administration Solicitor General Paul Clement, who will argue Tuesday's case in the Supreme Court on behalf of Hobby Lobby. (kcur.org)
  • Every three months for three years, when federal law compelled the Carmen Group to publicly describe its federal lobbying efforts on behalf of Xavier University of Louisiana , the firm used the vaguely worded phrase: "Hurricane Katrina related recovery issues. (publicintegrity.org)
  • My family and I are encouraged that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide our case,' said founder and CEO David Green. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Hobby Lobby is shaping up to be the most important free exercise of religion case the Supreme Court has heard in a very long time. (blogspot.com)
  • The fundamental question at the heart of the case is whether the Court will extend free exercise rights to secular businesses and allow them to extinguish the rights of their employees. (blogspot.com)
  • Tuesday's case involves not just the Constitution but a statute and a somewhat convoluted Supreme Court history. (kcur.org)
  • In a case involving penalties for the use of peyote as part of a Native American religious ceremony, the court ruled that as long as a generally applicable law - that is, a law that applies generally to all citizens - is neutrally applied, it is constitutional, even though it may have some unhappy consequences for some believers. (kcur.org)
  • At issue is whether a private, for-profit business, in this case Oklahoma-based Hobby Lobby, can have First Amendment religious beliefs. (politicmo.com)
  • Hobby Lobby won at the appellate level, and it was the federal government that asked that the case be taken up by the Supreme Court. (politicmo.com)
  • After lawyers present their oral arguments today, Hobby Lobby's case will rest in the Supreme Court's hands. (politicmo.com)
  • They won their case in court and ended the committee's ability to issue mass subpoenas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Apart from the case of Carmen and Xavier, details contained in a half-dozen other lobbying proposals and service contracts obtained by the Center for Public Integrity through state and federal court filings as well as freedom of information requests reveal exponentially more information about lobbying efforts than what's contained in quarterly reports submitted to the U.S. Senate and U.S. House. (publicintegrity.org)
  • Justice Alito stated that in the case before the court, the religious objections were legally accurate, under a law that stops the government from taking action that "substantially burdens" religious freedom. (globalflare.com)
  • Proposal 2 unfairly keeps students from asking universities to consider race as one factor in admissions, but allows consideration of factors like legacy status, athletic achievement and geography,' said Mark Rosenbaum, the American Civil Liberties Union attorney who argued the case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, before the Supreme Court in October. (commondreams.org)
  • In a statement, Catholic League's Bill Donahue on Tuesday cited examples of "the reaction of bigots to the Hobby Lobby case. (christianpost.com)
  • The Supreme Court merely decided not to get involved in the case at this time. (wnd.com)
  • In Shelby v. Holder, the Court struck down the preclearance requirement in Section 4 the VRA that required states with a history of voter discrimination to get the approval of the Justice Department or the federal court before making any election law changes. (networklobby.org)
  • A CT analysis of federal data shows that ministries received about $7 billion in forgiven PPP loans, with about a third of US churches receiving funding. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The government, however, points to a long line of Supreme Court cases that take a contrary view, declaring that the court has never found a for-profit company to be a religious organization for purposes of federal law. (kcur.org)
  • The federal government has responded that for-profit companies like Hobby Lobby do not exercise religion at all - it is their owners who do, and in other instances in federal law, businesses and the individuals that own them are considered separate. (politicmo.com)
  • Hawley said there were a couple of cases in the middle of the last century in which the Supreme Court considered claims brought by businesses asserting the federal government had infringed on religious liberties. (politicmo.com)
  • The NSSF is the biggest gun rights federal lobbying spender in the country , and its board members include representatives of gun companies such as Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Glock, and Daniel Defense, the maker of the AR 15-style rifle that was used by the mass shooter in Uvalde. (truthout.org)
  • The NSSF spends about $5 million on federal lobbying per year, and its PAC makes about $500,000 in federal campaign contributions each election cycle, according to OpenSecrets . (truthout.org)
  • On March 18, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona (ITCA), which will decide whether Arizona's refusal to register voters that do not provide proof of citizenship is in conflict with federal law. (prwatch.org)
  • The ALEC/Arizona law requires voters submit a copy of documents like passports or birth certificates to register, and is being challenged in the Supreme Court on grounds that it imposes additional restrictions beyond the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to accept registrations submitted on a uniform federal mail application. (prwatch.org)
  • el año 2012 estuvo marcado por la liberación del aborto en casos de anencefalia, contribuyendo con lo cambio del tema a la perspectiva de la salud pública que se fortaleció en 2013 con el apoyo de Conselho Federal de Medicina (CFM). (bvsalud.org)
  • Cruz predicted that the Supreme Court would rule in favor of religious freedom supporters. (pjmedia.com)
  • A: The court's majority said that the companies that filed suit - Hobby Lobby Stores, a nationwide chain of 500 arts-and-crafts stores, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a custom cabinet manufacturer - did not have to offer women employees all Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptives as part of a package of preventive services that must be covered without copays or deductibles under the law. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • Many more companies, in addition to Hobby Lobby, have claimed religious objections to covering some or all contraceptives. (globalflare.com)
  • The tobacco industry spends a significant amount of money in Montana on campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures to influence the behavior of political candidates. (who.int)
  • The tobacco industry lobbied through the Montana Tavern Association (MTA) and the gambling industry to support state preemption in House Bill 758, which quickly achieved passage despite complaints of legislative procedural violations. (who.int)
  • Washington, DC - Desperation and panic over the imminent failure of cap-and-trade legislation is driving a new White House lobbying push by special interest groups, according to policy experts at the National Center for Public Research. (nationalcenter.org)
  • In 1937, Senator Black was appointed to the Supreme Court and left the Senate, and Minton secured his post as chair of the committee. (wikipedia.org)
  • While congressional Republicans mainly remain allied with the gun lobby against such measures, Democrats are nearly universally clamoring for the passage of new laws. (truthout.org)
  • The Senate Lobby Investigation Committee was a special committee that once operated within the United States Senate during the 1930s and 1940s to investigate lobbyists. (wikipedia.org)
  • 107 members of the House and Senate asked the Supreme Court to protect the Greens' religious freedom. (becketlaw.org)
  • Of the 107, more than 85 members of the House and Senate joined a bipartisan brief asking the Court to protect religious freedom. (becketlaw.org)
  • Hopefully the Supreme Court joins with us in recognizing that [religious expression] is a right that can't be trampled on by any president," Scalise said. (pjmedia.com)
  • who attended the oral arguments, was also confident the Supreme Court would rule for the challengers. (pjmedia.com)
  • Struck down by the Supreme Court in May 1935, it was replaced by the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which assured workers the right to unionize, and by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act. (politico.com)
  • If the employers had decided to drop coverage altogether, Hobby Lobby would have paid roughly $26 million in penalties and Conestoga $1.8 million, far less than the fine for not covering all FDA-approved methods of birth control. (spacecoastdaily.com)
  • After weeks of wrangling, which included the issuance of subpoenas and court injunctions, the committee obtained the telegrams and discovered that the utilities had spent over one million dollars to lobby for the bill's defeat. (wikipedia.org)
  • As virtually all Court watchers seemed to agree, Justice Kennedy's vote appeared to be the one that will determine the outcome. (blogspot.com)
  • Professor Michael McConnell of Stanford Law School filed a brief explaining that the history of the First Amendment shows that it protects family businesses like Hobby Lobby. (becketlaw.org)
  • The US Supreme Court has just ruled that "closely held" for-profit businesses can use religious freedom objections to opt out of the requirements within the Affordable Care Act that require free 'morning-after' and 'week-after' pill coverage for their employees (as many believe that these are forms of abortion). (globalflare.com)
  • Hobby Lobby President Steve Green says the company should not have to provide insurance coverage for IUDs and morning-after pills for its 13,000 employees. (hawaiipublicradio.org)
  • Ten years after ex-Sen. Richard Bryan (D-NV) declared all Nevadans deserve "safe, clean drinking water," he took a job lobbying for a company that makes perchlorate , a chemical used in rocket fuel that has contaminated drinking water across the country, reports Mother Jones . (propublica.org)
  • According to ProPublica's reporting, the change was the result of a quiet insurance industry lobbying campaign led by Matthew Albright, a former CMS employee who left government service to work for Zelis, a payment processing company co-owned by private equity giant Bain Capital. (medscape.com)
  • The lobby claims that the non-commercial cap renders statutory damages "ineffective in achieving its goals of full compensation and deterrence in the online environment. (eff.org)
  • The Supreme Court instead focused on issues of statutory construction to determine that Montana state law has no public policy against "aid in dying" because the final death causing act lies in the patient's hands. (lifesitenews.com)
  • CT previously previewed the top contenders the court will choose between today. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Previously we announced a Call-In Lobbying Day for Thursday, September 8. (anh-usa.org)
  • GE CEO Jeff Immelt and Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, members of the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a coalition that supports cap-and-trade, attended the lobbying sessions. (nationalcenter.org)
  • The high court will combine the cases. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The judges said that based "expressly upon the understanding that the government will not deviate from its considered representations to this court, we conclude that the cases are not fit for review at this time because 'if we do not decide [the merits of appellants' challenge to the current rule] now, we may never need to. (wnd.com)
  • Not only has the Court, for the first time in history, expanded the definition of religious freedom to include for-profit corporate entities, it has determined that the free exercise of those employers outweighs that of their employees. (interfaithalliance.org)
  • I find strength in knowing that we have lost at the Court before and that religious freedom has not been so easily shaken. (interfaithalliance.org)
  • This marks the first time in history that the court has ruled a for-profit businesses can cite religious freedom to avoid a federally mandated requirement. (globalflare.com)
  • Diverse religious groups support Hobby Lobby and religious freedom. (becketlaw.org)
  • The lobbying gambit met with some success: Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., successfully included a loan modification plan for the university in an omnibus spending bill - something Xavier University President Norman Francis publicly lauded as "critical and important. (publicintegrity.org)
  • She piggybacked a bunch of people who lobby against Section 101 (or lobby to water it down). (techrights.org)
  • People start to worry that the lobbying might actually work and Section 101 (in its current form) will be thwarted. (techrights.org)