Hobby Lobby

Hobby Lobby Fined $3M Over Smuggled Iraqi Artifacts

David Green, the founder of Hobby Lobby, speaks before a campaign rally for Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Marco Rubio. (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
US federal prosecutors say Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and return ancient Iraqi artifacts which were smuggled from the Middle East after being intentionally mislabelled.

Hobby Lobby Owners Suspected of Illegally Importing Looted Iraqi Artifacts

By Cassius Methyl – ANTIMEDIA – October 29, 2015 Hobby Lobby is a self-proclaimed “deeply Christian” chain of craft stores run by the wealthy Green family that made headlines in 2014 when a landmark Supreme Court ruling in their favor extended religious freedom rights to corporations. A strange situation with the infamous craft chain store hit […]

"Justice Ginsburg explains everything you need to know about religious liberty in two sentences" (Ian Millhiser)

Plus: Justice Nino daydreams about mandatory polygamy"Unlike the exemption this Court approved in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., accommodating petitioner's religious belief in this case would not detrimentally affect others who do not share petitioner's belief. On that understanding, I join the Court's opinion."-- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, rulingwith a unanimous Court today in Holt v. Hobbsby KenThe case itself, this Holt v.