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Hobby Lobby President Steve Green and his mother Barbara Green
outside the federal courthouse in Oklahoma City in July
"There's an excellent chance that the manner in which the Court
disposes of Hobby Lobby will say something significant on the
constitutionality of these state statutes," Fred Gedicks, a law
professor at Brigham Young University, told TPM. "It could be a
powerful precedent."  The Court will hear oral arguments in
Hobby Lobby next month, with a decision to come in the following
months.  Supporters of these bills would "gain a better
argument" if the Court ruled in their favor, added Doug NeJaime,
a law professor at University of California-Irvine. "If they win
on that question, it's just a leveling down to states to say,
'These are the same types of rights we're seeking under state
free exercise laws.'"  So if they get a favorable decision in
the Hobby Lobby case, the pro