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Brief: Hobby Lobby wins preliminary injunction

By: Tracy Simmons

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July 19, 2013

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Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. saw victory in federal court today when it was granted temporary exemption from the 2010 healthcare law that requires it offer workers insurance coverage for birth control. Hobby Lobby says this mandate goes against its Christian beliefs. Today’s injunction prevents the government from enforcing the mandate against Hobby Lobby.

Currently there are 63 lawsuits challenging the HHS mandate, according to The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

“The tide has turned against the HHS mandate,” said Kyle Duncan, general counsel with the Becket Fund, and lead attorney for Hobby Lobby.

The case has been put on hold until Oct. 1.

There are two Hobby Lobby stores in the Spokane area.

Tracy Simmons

Tracy Simmons is an award-winning journalist specializing in religion reporting and digital entrepreneurship. In her approximate 20 years on the religion beat, Simmons has tucked a notepad in her pocket and found some of her favorite stories aboard cargo ships in New Jersey, on a police chase in Albuquerque, in dusty Texas church bell towers, on the streets of New York and in tent cities in Haiti. Simmons has worked as a multimedia journalist for newspapers across New Mexico, Texas, Connecticut and Washington. She is the executive director of FāVS.News, a digital journalism start-up covering religion news and commentary in Spokane, Washington. She also writes for The Spokesman-Review and national publications. She is a Scholarly Associate Professor of Journalism at Washington State University.

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