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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.

8. $73 million

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Michael Hichborn kneels and prays as he joins demonstrators while waiting for the Supreme Court's decision on the Hobby Lobby case outside the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court says corporations can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.

The amount Hobby Lobby's employee 401(k) plan has in mutual funds that invest in major pharmaceutical companies that manufacture, among many other drugs, IUDs and emergency contraceptives, according to a Mother Jones analysis of documents from the Department of Labor. Stock holdings include Pfizer, Bayer, and AstraZeneca. The documents were dated December 2012 – three months after the Greens filed their government lawsuit. In 2012, Hobby Lobby contributed $3.8 million to its employee 401(k) plans, which had 13,400 participants. 

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