Tag: Masterpiece Cakeshop
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Colorado Supreme Court to hear latest LGBTQ discrimination case against Masterpiece Cakeshop
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Tuesday that it will decide whether a Lakewood cake maker violated the state’s anti-discrimination law when he declined to supply a cake to celebrate a customer’s gender transition, or if the First Amendment protected his refusal. The case involves…
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Masterpiece Cakeshop violated anti-discrimination law again, Colorado appeals court finds
For the second time in nearly eight years, Colorado’s second-highest court has agreed Masterpiece Cakeshop, Inc. violated the state’s antidiscrimination law by refusing to sell a cake to an LGBTQ customer. A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals concluded the store’s owner, Jack Phillips, ran afoul of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA) when he…
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SCOTUS takes up ‘true threats’ case out of Colorado, the latest in a series of state court appeals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The nation’s highest court has shone a spotlight on Colorado’s typically low-profile Court of Appeals, agreeing to review a decision of the 22-member court for the second time in under a decade. The U.S. Supreme Court, in granting appeals, occasionally gives the green-light to federal…