14 More Companies That Likely Will Deny Employees Birth Control
Hobby Lobby was just one of dozens of for-profit companies that challenged Obamacare’s so-called contraception mandate, which requires companies with 50 or more employees to cover FDA-approved forms of birth control as part of their health care plans.
Many of those companies — there are 48 of them with cases pending in lower courts, according to the National Women’s Law Center — are “closely held,” meaning Monday’s Supreme Court decision likely frees them to deny contraception coverage to their employees if they have a legitimate religious objection. (A closely held company is one where the majority of outstanding stock is owned by five or fewer people, according to the IRS.)
HuffPost read the court filings of these cases to determine which of those companies were easily identified as being “closely held” and how many employees were likely to be affected.
So what happens next for all these companies?
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