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HHS Mandate: Court Rules Against Catholic Business Owners
Catholic Culture ^ | 3/6/13

Posted on 03/06/2013 6:47:29 AM PST by marshmallow

A US district judge in the District of Columbia has refused to halt the implementation of the HHS mandate against Freshway Foods and Freshway Logistics, two businesses owned by Francis and Philip Gilardi.

The brothers do not wish to provide health insurance that covers contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs, and have excluded such coverage from their company insurance policies for the past decade.

“The Court finds that the Freshway Corporations are not the alter egos of the Gilardis for the limited purpose of asserting the Gilardis’ religious beliefs,” ruled Judge Emmet Sullivan............

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1 posted on 03/06/2013 6:47:36 AM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

It is interesting that the courts can “Piercing the corporate veil” to assign the corporations “rights and responsibilities” to the stockholders in certain situations such as when there is a very close relationship between the stockholder and the corporation. But in this case the judge found that it doesn’t work the other way around.


2 posted on 03/06/2013 6:57:35 AM PST by oldbrowser (They are marxists, don't call them democrats)
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To: marshmallow

This will have to go to the Supreme court.

But by then businesses like this may go under.

Hobby Lobby may not have a snowball’s chance.


3 posted on 03/06/2013 7:02:14 AM PST by servo1969
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To: marshmallow

You will not be allowed freedom of conscious. Unless, of course, you practice Islam.


4 posted on 03/06/2013 7:05:04 AM PST by D Rider
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To: oldbrowser; marshmallow
Will be wise for them to consider joining as an aggrieved party to this suit:

Killing the Obamacare Zombie: Hope Lives!

FReegards!


5 posted on 03/06/2013 7:12:53 AM PST by Agamemnon (Darwinism is the glue that holds liberalism together)
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To: servo1969

“Hobby Lobby may not have a snowball’s chance.”

There are many other waiting in the wings.


6 posted on 03/06/2013 7:25:37 AM PST by PetroniusMaximus
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To: marshmallow

This court is evil. Obama is evil. ObamaCare is evil. That’s the bottom line in this ruling.


7 posted on 03/06/2013 7:53:06 AM PST by Pollster1
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To: marshmallow

But if they were Muslim, no problemo because they are exempt for religious purposes.


8 posted on 03/06/2013 7:53:34 AM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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To: marshmallow

So change the corporation’s by-laws to include religious belief components.

Whats wrong with that?

The court is saying that you incorporated to separate your personal liability from the business liability. I can sort of see that argument. But the Corporation can also be run as it sees fit by the majority of thr stock holders, in the case the Gilardis. seems the way out is there.

But I am not a lawyer no do I play one on tv.


9 posted on 03/06/2013 8:01:00 AM PST by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: marshmallow

And a certain middle-eastern death cult is specifically exempted from obamacare because insurance is “haram.”
Meanwhile, the government is forcing Catholics to choose between their religion and fines or jail.

We live in a totalitarian dictatorship that is actively trying to eliminate Christianity and promote the middle eastern death cult.


10 posted on 03/06/2013 8:17:20 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: PetroniusMaximus

Meaning what?


11 posted on 03/06/2013 8:17:33 AM PST by RoadGumby (This is not where I belong, Take this world and give me Jesus.)
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