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Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.

20 distinct federal employment cases from public court records (20102025)

2 trusted published court opinions across 2 distinct cases · 1 docket-only case without a recorded end date

What public court records show

Public federal court records list Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. as an employer in 20 distinct federal employment cases between 2010 and 2025.

The most common claims on record were Failure To Accommodate.

Cases were filed across 1 state (CA).

These figures summarize publicly available U.S. federal court records only. Most workplace disputes are resolved privately and never appear in litigation. A case outcome reflects many factors and is not a finding that any employer violated the law.

2
Published Opinions Analyzed

Written decisions across 2 distinct cases.

1
States

Jurisdictions represented in the analyzed opinions.

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About this employer

Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. appears in 2 trusted published federal employment opinions. The most recent written decision on record:

James Farr v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (2020) — Dismissed. James Farr filed a lawsuit against Hobby Lobby Stores, claiming the company failed to accommodate his needs at work. The case involved questions about whether Hobby Lobby provided the reasonable adjustments or support Farr required to perform his job. Read the ruling.

The published opinion involves a failure to accommodate claim. Browse other failure to accommodate rulings for comparable fact patterns and how courts have ruled. Failure to Accommodate.

Published opinions span California. California is an EEOC deferral state, which extends the federal Title VII / ADA / ADEA filing deadline from 180 to 300 days. Browse state-specific employment rulings for jurisdictional patterns. California rulings.

These published opinions sit within the retail sector, where wage-and-hour, scheduling, and Title VII harassment claims are the dominant categories.

Claim Types

States

What these numbers mean

A case is one lawsuit, identified by its court and docket number. The docket is the running court record for that same case — it is not an extra case.

A published opinion or ruling is a written court decision. One case can produce several opinions, so opinion counts and case counts answer different questions. Only trusted, reportable opinions are used in the outcome statistics on this page.

Docket entries are the individual filings inside a case — motions, orders, scheduling notices. We read them to confirm a case is real and to see where it got to, but an entry is never counted as a case or as an outcome. A single case can generate hundreds of entries.

Far fewer opinions than cases is normal. Many employment cases settle privately or close without a published opinion. No opinion here does not mean the worker lost; it means this public record does not show a reportable result.

Everything on this page comes from public federal court records. Where we are not confident a record is accurate, we leave it out rather than guess.

Federal court cases

public court records

One row per court+docket case · written opinions stay grouped inside their case · plaintiff names redacted

Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
C.D. Ill. · Jan 2025
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
D. Nev. · Aug 2024
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
N.D. Ga. · Mar 2024
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
D. Kan. · Jun 2022
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
C.D. Cal. · Sep 2020 · California · Failure to Accommodate
Dismissed
Employee v. HOBBY LOBBY, INC.
M.D. Ga. · May 2020
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
C.D. Cal. · Oct 2019
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
W.D. Okla. · Sep 2019
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
M.D. Fla. · May 2019
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
S.D. Iowa · Jan 2019
Docket closed
Employee v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC.
S.D. Ind. · May 2018
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
11th Circuit · Jul 2017
Defendant Win
Employee v. HOBBY LOBBY STORES, INC.
S.D. Ind. · Jun 2016
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
S.D. Tex. · May 2016
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
W.D. Okla. · Nov 2015
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
W.D. Okla. · Jul 2015
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc
W.D. Okla. · Sep 2014
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
W.D.N.Y. · Aug 2014
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
E.D. Tex. · Apr 2014
Docket closed
Employee v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
E.D. Tenn. · Jul 2010
Docket closed
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Data sourced from public federal court records via CourtListener.com. Case outcomes extracted using AI analysis. This information is for educational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. The presence of an employer on this page does not imply wrongdoing — many cases are dismissed or resolved without findings of liability.