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‘Be Willing to Stand Up’: Masterpiece Cakeshop Owner’s Legal Troubles Expected to End After Landmark SCOTUS Ruling
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis, a landmark First Amendment case, may finally bring Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillip’s more than a decade-long legal battle to a decisive end.
by Katelynn Richardson DailyCaller.com
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in a landmark First Amendment case may finally bring Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillip’s more than a decade-long legal battle to a decisive end.
Though Phillips won his 2018 Supreme Court case after declining to create a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple, his victory didn’t stop Colorado courts from later siding with a transgender attorney, Autumn Scardina, who filed a lawsuit against him for declining to make a cake symbolizing “gender transition.” That’s because the ruling in Phillips’ case only addressed the state’s hostility against his religious beliefs, not the broader free speech issues surrounding Colorado’s law barring public accommodations from restricting services based on sexual orientation, which have now been resolved by the Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative v. Elenis.