# Hobby Lobby's birth control fight goes to the SCOTUS. Your predictions?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 23, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobby-lobbys-birth-control-fight-goes-to-the-scotus-your-predictions/684393 "2014-03-23T23:05:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hobby-lobbys-birth-control-fight-goes-to-the-scotus-your-predictions/684393/33 "2014-03-27T01:41:49Z")

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> [@Bricker](#):
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> I disagree. I think it will be 5-4 Hobby Lobby’s way, but with a narrow ruling – something that limits the reach to closely-held S corps, where there is a clear uniform identity of ownership behind the corporate structure. They will leave undecided the wider question of what rights IBM or General Motors might have.

I don’t really see a way for them to do that in the present case, since Hobby Lobby has taken no action to distinguish itself from any other corporation (other than remaining closely held.) I am expecting lots of dicta explaining what corporations wishing to avail themselves of HL’s argument need to do - explain their closely held religious belief in their founding documents, or something. Or organize as an LLC.

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