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Craft retailer Hobby Lobby is no stranger to controversy. Throughout its over 50 years in business, the company has been entangled in several snafus, often tied back to founder David Green's religious beliefs.
The Hobby Lobby smuggling scandal started in 2009 when representatives of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores received a large number of clay bullae and tablets originating in the ancient Near East.
Hobby Lobby has made the headlines for a few controversies over the last year, often relating back to its founder and CEO David Green. Green has been a controversial figure for years due to his treatment of workers and his intense religious rhetoric.
Hobby Lobby illegally imported 5,500 ancient artifacts from Iraq for $1.6 million. In 2010, Hobby Lobby purchased thousands of items during an auction from unnamed dealers based in the United Arab Emirates and Israel, per PBS.
An appellate court deciding Hobby Lobby violated Illinois anti-discrimination law by denying a transgender employee access to the women’s restroom could have nationwide implications, experts...
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., 573 U.S. 682 (2014), is a landmark decision [1] [2] 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 ...
A brief timeline of Hobby Lobby’s many controversies. In 2011, Hobby Lobby lobbied to push the founders of Feed the Children, a non-profit organization in Oklahoma, out of their own charity.
Hobby Lobby, the national arts-and-crafts supply chain, illegally imported thousands of ancient relics from the Middle East, according to the Justice Department.
In early January of 2011, United States Customs and Border Patrol agents in Memphis, Tennessee intercepted a FedEx package from the United Arab Emirates bound for the president or executive assistant of Hobby Lobby, an arts and crafts supply chain headquartered in Oklahoma.
Hobby Lobby, the national chain of craft stores, has been performing a kind of solo act of defiance of law by refusing to close stores around the country because its owners would like to stay...