After a surprising run of 9-0 decisions, the Supreme Court ended its year the way we’ve come to expect: with hotly contested 5-4 splits. Most importantly, the Court finally decided Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, the closely watched fight over whether the Health and Human Services Department can force corporations to pay for their employees’ insurance coverage of abortifacient contraceptives.

Although Obamacare and the administration’s regulations triggered this litigation, the primary focus of the case was much older statute, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, as amended by the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000.