No. XX-XX In the Supreme Court of the United States KATHLEEN SEBELIUS, SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC., ET AL. ON PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT PETITION FOR A WRIT OF CERTIORARI DONALD B. VERRILLI, JR. Solicitor General Counsel of Record STUART F. DELERY Assistant Attorney General EDWIN S. KNEEDLER Deputy Solicitor General JOSEPH R. PALMORE Assistant to the Solicitor General MARK B. STERN ALISA B. KLEIN Attorneys Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20530-0001
[email protected] (202) 514-2217 QUESTION PRESENTED The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), 42 U.S.C. 2000bb et seq., provides that the government “shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” unless that burden is the least restrictive means to further a compelling governmen- tal interest. 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1(a) and (b). The ques- tion presented is whether RFRA allows a for-profit corporation to deny its employees the health coverage of contraceptives to which the employees are other- wise entitled by federal law, based on the religious objections of the corporation’s owners. (I) PARTIES TO THE PROCEEDINGS Petitioners are Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services; the Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas E. Perez, Secre- tary of Labor; the Department of Labor; Jacob J. Lew, Secretary of the Treasury; and the Department of the Treasury. Respondents are Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.; Mardel, Inc.; David Green; Barbara Green; Mart Green; Steve Green; and Darsee Lett.