At the center of today’s U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby are three family-owned businesses: Hobby Lobby, Mardel, and Conestoga Wood Specialties.

The businesses were ultimately successful in their suits to avoid providing post-conception contraception to employees as mandated by Obamacare (aka the Affordable Care Act), Reuters reports.

How did these businesses prevail in front of the nation’s highest court? Here’s an overview of the three-step legal analysis that won their case:

The 5-4 Hobby Lobby ruling found the Court once again split along ideological lines, with conservative justices in the majority. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was joined by the Court’s two other female justices and Justice Stephen Breyer in a scathing, lengthy dissent warning of dire fallout from the legal precedent set in the case.

For more analysis of the Hobby Lobby decision, check out FindLaw’s U.S. Supreme Court Blog.

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Related Resources:

  • Supreme Court Rejects Contraceptives Mandate for Some Corporations (The New York Times)
  • Supreme Court Rules on Hobby Lobby, Home-Care Workers’ Union Dues (FindLaw’s Decided)
  • Supreme Court on Hobby Lobby: 5 Things You Should Know (FindLaw’s Law and Daily Life)
  • Corporations: Persons Without Personal Privacy Rights (FindLaw’s Decided)

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