Though Hobby Lobby rewrote longstanding legal doctrines in ways that could do considerable harm both to women seeking birth control and to LGBT Americans, it also left considerable uncertainty about whether the Supreme Court was actually willing to let religious objectors strip away the rights of others.
Zubik is likely to resolve much of this uncertainty.
If the plaintiffs prevail in Zubik, it will mean that a woman’s boss can have a considerable voice in that woman’s sexual and reproductive choices. If they do not prevail, however, then Hobby Lobby could prove to be a dog that did not bark — a brief scare for women and sexual minorities that, ultimately, proved to be little more than a paper tiger....
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/03/22/3761993/inside-the-most-important-birth-control-case-to-reach-the-supreme-court-in-40-years/

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