Do businesses have constitutional rights?

We’re keeping our eye on an interesting court case on the horizon. On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court will be hearing Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, a case which delves into whether private businesses have freedom-of-religion rights.

The Green family, which owns Hobby Lobby, objects to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate and wants their employee health care plan to exclude certain types of FDA-approved contraceptives, such as the “morning after pill.” The Greens argue that those contraceptives are in conflict with their religious principles. Opponents, including Democratic communications strategist Laura Chapin, maintain that a for-profit business has no constitutional right to use religion to exempt itself from following a federal law that its owners disagree with.