Pennsylvania judge rules against firm that challenged health care law
The Hahn family, which owns Conestoga Wood Specialties, plans to appeal the decision, their lawyer, Charles Proctor III, said.
Judge Goldberg noted the very purpose of incorporation is to create a legal entity distinct from those who start it, partly to protect the founders from personal legal and financial liability.
"If every plaintiff were permitted to unilaterally determine that a law burdened their religious beliefs, and courts were required to assume that such burden was substantial, simply because the plaintiff claimed that it was the case, then the standard expressed by Congress under the RFRA would convert to an 'any burden' standard," he said.
Brigitte Amiri of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, which filed an amicus brief advocating against the injunction, said, "This decision reaffirms the idea that taking a job isn't the same as joining a church."
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