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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.

Last week, a federal district court in Montana dismissed a lawsuit by Freedom From Religion Foundation seeking theU.S. Forest Service to remove a privately designed and maintained monument to soldiers who gave their lives in World War II. The organization argued that the 60-year-old monument — which stands in the middle of Big Mountain ski resort in Whitefish, Mont. — could not be displayed on government-owned land.

To the outside observer, the US Highway 26 project was innocuous, if a bit of a traffic impediment. The 2008 construction project, intended to widen a dangerously narrow 1.5 mile section of the Mt. Hood highway in Oregon, would provide improved passage for cars turning left.

Hereditary Chief Wilbur Slockish, however, says the project has destroyed his freedom of religion, and is suing for damages.