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In Burwell v.Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014), the Supreme Court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits a closely-held for-profit corporation to deny

InBurwell v.Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2014), the Supreme Court held that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) permits a closely-held for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health insurance coverage of reimbursement for the cost of contraception, to which the employees would have otherwise been entitled under the Affordable Care Act.

a. what legal standard did the Court apply in its decision to strike down the contraception mandate?

b. what arguments would you make that the Court's decision should be upheld based on that standard?

c. thinking back toGriswold v. Connecticut (1965). and of the "unenumerated or implied rights" of Hobby Lobby employees, what arguments would you make that the Court's decision was in error and that the contraception mandate should have been upheld?

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