Effectively's Just Another Word For...

The court found that the contraception mandate violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because Freshway Foods is a closely held company, so the mandate violates the rights of its owners. The ruling effectively confers personhood on the company rather than directly doing so.

"Dear President Obama, This Is Why Judges Matter"

The above is the way that laws serve a sleight-of-hand function in which the apparent results serve to distract attention from what are seeming "side-effects" though these are intentional and the real goal of the legal action.