If it’s not a wedding cake baker, it’s a web designer. And this time the court looks like it’s going to vote to limit anti-discrimination law.
Jack Phillips
Posted inCrime and Courts
Colorado baker fighting state’s ruling over gender-transition cake
Jack Phillips, who won a partial Supreme Court victory on religious grounds, is now challenging Colorado’s anti-discrimination ruling
Posted inBusiness, Crime and Courts, Equity, News, Politics and Government
Supreme Court will hear case of Colorado web designer who would refuse service to gay people
By Jessica Gresko, The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new clash involving religion and the rights of LGBTQ people in the case of a Colorado web designer who says her religious beliefs prevent her from offering wedding website designs to gay couples. The high court said Tuesday it […]
Posted inNews
Jack Phillips appeals Colorado court’s ruling on gender transition cake
A Christian baker found to have violated Colorado’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to make a birthday cake for a transgender woman has appealed the ruling to the state appeal appeals court. In a notice filed Monday, lawyers for Jack Phillips asked the appeals court to review the June ruling by a Denver judge by looking […]
Posted inColoradans, Crime and Courts, News
Colorado baker Jack Phillips sued again over alleged LGBTQ bias
By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press A Colorado baker who won a partial victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2018 for refusing to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple went on trial Monday in yet another lawsuit, this one involving a birthday cake for a transgender woman. Autumn Scardina attempted to order the birthday […]
Posted inColoradans, Crime and Courts, News
Latest legal challenge by Masterpiece Cakeshop baker can continue, judge rules
A judge says the latest legal challenge by a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple can continue. In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Wiley Daniel rejected Colorado’s arguments that the federal court should stay out of the dispute over whether the state is treating Jack Phillips unfairly […]
Posted inBusiness, Coloradans, Crime and Courts, News
Colorado baker, central in U.S. Supreme Court case, back in court over 2nd LGBT bias allegation
By Colleen Slevin, The Associated Press Attorneys for a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds — a stand partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — argued in federal court Tuesday that the state is punishing him again over his refusal to bake a cake celebrating […]