Articles

Timothy Sandefur's Sac Bee op-ed on Hobby Lobby case

July 03, 2014 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

Today’s Sac Bee carries PLF attorney Timothy Sandefur’s op-ed about the Hobby Lobby case.  Excerpt: Hobby Lobby is hardly an extreme decision. It did not block the availability of contraception, or force workers to get their bosses’ approval. It simply said that the government can find ways to provide it without forcing Hobby Lob ...

Articles

Whittling away at NFIB v. Sebelius, the SCOTUS way

June 28, 2014 | By MIKE GARCIA

After the Supreme Court’s decision in NFIB v. Sebelius came out, David Franklin hailed Chief Justice Roberts’ decision in Slate Magazine.  The decision shocked many who thought Roberts would join the conservatives in striking down Obamacare, but Franklin praised Roberts for saving Court’s credibility, noting that “a 5-4 dec ...

Articles

Mounting the full Court press on Obamacare

June 26, 2014 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

What’s the latest on our Obamacare litigation? I explain the newest developments in Sissel, Coons, and Hobby Lobby here. … ...

Articles

Supreme Court hears oral argument in challenge to Obamacare contraceptive mandate

March 25, 2014 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

Today the Supreme Court heard oral argument in the Hobby Lobby case challenging Obamacare’s requirement that employers provide their employees with health insurance coverage for contraceptives.  Hobby Lobby, Mardel, and Conestoga Wood—whose owners say the contraceptive mandate would force them to act against their religious beliefsR ...

Articles

PLF attorney Anastasia Boden joins Mark Standriff on KTKZ-AM 1380

March 25, 2014 | By ANASTASIA BODEN

Update: listen to the interview here. I’ll be speaking Wednesday morning with host Mark Standriff on KTKZ-AM 1380 about the Supreme Court oral arguments in Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius—the free exercise challenge to Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate.  If you are in the Sacramento area, tune in at 7:35 am on March 26th, or you can stre ...

Articles

Hobby Lobby and other for-profit corporations have First Amendment rights

March 21, 2014 | By TIMOTHY SANDEFUR

The Washington Times has published my op-ed about the Hobby Lobby case, in which we and our friends at the Reason Foundation and the Individual Rights Foundation filed a friend of the court brief. You can read the brief here, and you can read the article here. Excerpt: The concept of corporate personhood is a perfectly sensible idea, … ...

Articles

Obamacare headed for U.S. Supreme Court again

November 26, 2013 | By CHRISTINA MARTIN

The diagnosis is getting worse for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – Obamacare. Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would hear Hobby Lobby Stores v. Sebelius and Conestoga Wood Corp. v. Sebelius. Both cases challenge Obamacare’s mandate that employers pay for health insurance plans that give employees coverage for ...