Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who was accused of revealing the decision of a 2014 case regarding contraceptives and religious rights in advance, has denied the allegation.

According to the New York Times, Rev. Rob Schenck said he learned about the decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby weeks before it was announced by the court.

The decision was informed soon after Gayle Wright, a donor to the evangelical nonprofit organization he was running called Faith and Action, and her husband had dinner with Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito.

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The opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was authored by Alito. The court had ruled in favor of two for-profit corporations that objected on religious grounds to a provision of the Affordable Cart Act, which requires employers to provide health insurance that includes contraception coverage.

In a statement to ABC News, Alito said the “allegation that the Wrights were told the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or the authorship of the opinion of the Court, by me or my wife is completely false.”

Alito said he and his wife became acquainted with the Wrights “because of their strong support for the Supreme Court Historical Society, and since then, we have had a casual and purely social relationship.”

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In his statement to ABC News, Alito said he “never detected any effort on the part of the Wrights to obtain confidential information or to influence anything that I did in either an official or private capacity, and I would have strongly objected if they had done so.”

Alito said he’d be “shocked and offended if those allegations are true.