Hobby Lobby Stores,Inc.,formerly Hobby Lobby Creative Centers,is an American retail company. It owns a chain of arts and crafts stores with a volume of over $5 billion in 2018. The chain has 1,001 stores in 48 U.S. states. The Green family founded Hobby Lobby to express their Christian beliefs and the chain incorporates American conservative values and Christian media.
Pierre Nelson Leval is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the time of his appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1993,he was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
David Lionel Bazelon was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Scott Milne Matheson Jr. is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He has served on that court since 2010.
Luther Lee Bohanon was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Harold Dale Cook,also known as H. Dale Cook,was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma,the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
James Hardy Payne is an inactive senior United States District Judge in Oklahoma,sitting simultaneously on the federal courts for the Eastern,the Northern and the Western districts.
Timothy D. Leonard is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma.
Vicki Miles-LaGrange is an inactive Senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was the first African-American woman to be sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. She was also the first African-American woman elected to the Oklahoma Senate.
David Lynn Russell is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
Patty Shwartz is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores,Inc.,573 U.S. 682 (2014),is a landmark decision in United States corporate law by the United States Supreme Court allowing privately held for-profit corporations to be exempt from a regulation that its owners religiously object to,if there is a less restrictive means of furthering the law's interest,according to the provisions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. It is the first time that the Court has recognized a for-profit corporation's claim of religious belief,but it is limited to privately held corporations. The decision does not address whether such corporations are protected by the free exercise of religion clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Roseann Ambrosia Ketchmark is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri and a former assistant United States attorney.
Scott Lawrence Palk is an American attorney and academic. He is currently a Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. He formerly served as Assistant Dean at the University of Oklahoma College of Law.
Mark Timothy Pittman is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas and former judge of the Texas Court of Appeals.
Bernard Maurice Jones II is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and a former magistrate judge of the same court.
Zahid Nisar Quraishi is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and a former United States magistrate judge of the same court. He is the first Muslim Article III federal judge confirmed by the United States Senate.
Tarrant Regional Water District v. Herrmann,569 U.S. 614 (2013),was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that Oklahoma statutes forbidding the export of water from the state are not preempted or forbidden by the Red River Compact.
Eunice Cheryl Lee is an American lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Born in West Germany,she attended Ohio State University and Yale Law School. In 2021,she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the Second Circuit after being nominated by President Joe Biden.
Jinsook Ohta is an American attorney and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. She previously served as a judge on the San Diego County Superior Court.
