In the National Journal:
So if the Supreme Court rules in favor of these two for-profit entities, the justices are not likely to rule broadly enough to encompass a significant number of employers, said Stephen Bainbridge, a corporate-law professor at the University of California (Los Angeles).
"The chances that the Supreme Court would rule that firms that are publicly held, large 'Apple-type' corporations, can get ahold of these exemptions are essentially nil," Bainbridge explained.
"In the most likely scenario in which Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood would prevail," he said, "the Court is likely to rule that only firms where essentially the firm is the alter-ego of the shareholders, where there is a small number of shareholders who hold cohesively and unanimously strong religious beliefs that inform how the business is run, only firms like that would be able to get the kind of exemption that Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood are seeking here."