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A divided U.S. Supreme Court debated whether companies can assert religious rights, hearing arguments in an ideological clash over President Barack Obamas health-care law and rules that promote contraceptive coverage.

If President Barack Obamas signature health-care law unravels, it could be for want of a single number in crucial passages of the 2,409-page statute.

Every few years a U.S. Supreme Court case comes along that seems magically to involve every important issue of the day. Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, which will be argued Tuesday, does the trifecta one better.

The Hobby Lobby case focuses on the First Amendments separate guarantee of free exercise of religion, along with a 1993 federal religious-rights law.

Four years ago, in the Citizens United case, the Supreme Court affirmed that corporations are people, at least when it comes to their First Amendment rights of free speech.

Americans still arent happy with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. But they don't want to see the law repealed.

The U.S. Supreme Court said an order of Catholic nuns, for now, doesnt have to fill out an Obama administration form that the religious group says might lead to contraceptive coverage for its employees.

The Supreme Court this year will hear arguments about whether Hobby Lobby and other for-profit companies whose owners have strong moral objections to birth control can opt out of the PPACA's contraceptive requirement.