The U.S. Supreme Court waited until the final day of its 2013 Term to rule on what was for many the year’s most anticipated case: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, involving Obamacare’s birth-control mandate.

In a 5-4 opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Court ruled that certain private companies can object to Obamacare’s mandate that they provide coverage for birth control through their employee health insurance plans, Reuters reports.

Want to know more? Here are five key points from the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision:

For more analysis of this case, check out FindLaw’s U.S. Supreme Court blog.

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)
  • Priests’ Obamacare Contraception Mandate Appeal Heard (U.S. Supreme Court Blog)
  • In Carpool Lane, Are Corporations ‘People’? (FindLaw’s Legally Weird)

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