Hobby Lobby decision: Eight important numbers to know

Here are eight key numbers in the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling, including company financial information, what constitutes a ‘closely held’ company, and the out-of-pocket costs for the forms of contraception involved in the ruling.

7. $475 million

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Customers walk to a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-crafts stores is by far the largest employer fighting the birth-control provision.

The amount that Hobby Lobby would have had to pay in government fines had it refused the contraception coverage, according to the company’s lawyers. In its briefing against the Hobby Lobby suit, the federal government argued that Hobby Lobby Corp. had different obligations to its employees than the Greens, regardless of the latter’s religious beliefs. “While the Greens are persons who exercise religion, there is a critical separation between the Greens and the corporation they have elected to create,” the briefing read.

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