Neil Siegel is a professor of law and political science and co-director of the Program in Public Law at Duke University in Durham, N.C. He is an expert on constitutional law and theory, and the Supreme Court. Much of his recent work has been on the Affordable Care Act. He clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Read a transcript of the oral arguments in the case, heard by the Supreme Court on March 25, 2014.

Read a June 2, 2014, Religion News Service story about a Public Religion Research Institute poll that shows most Americans favor the contraception mandate.

Read a June 23, 2014, Religion News Service story rounding up various polls that show differing levels of support for each side in the case.

Paul D. Clement is an attorney with the Washington, D.C., law firm Bancroft PLLC.

Donald B. Verrilli Jr. is an attorney and the solicitor general of the United States. He argued the government’s case in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby and Conestoga before the Supreme Court. Contact via the solicitor general’s office.

Kate Kelly is an attorney and women’s rights activist. In 2013, she founded Ordain Women, a grassroots organization that seeks the ordination of women to the Mormon priesthood. Contact Kelly through the form on her website.

A March 2014 backgrounder by the Pew Research Center explains the issues at stake in the contraception cases and the likely implications of whatever the justices ultimately decide.  

Daniel Mach is director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s program on freedom of religion and belief.