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U.S. Supreme Court,
Corporate,
Constitutional Law,
Civil Rights

Dec. 7, 2017

Expect justices to overrule double-standard policy

The Supreme Court can be expected to overrule the Colorado Civil Rights Commission's policy favoring sexual orientation over creed and crystallize Kennedy's First Amendment assurances.

William J. Becker Jr.

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Univ of San Diego School of Law

Bill Becker is founder, president, CEO and general counsel of Freedom X, a Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit public interest law firm and advocacy center protecting conservative and religious freedom of expression.

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Expect justices to overrule double-standard policy
Jack Phillips, the baker who was convicted under a Colorado anti-discrimination law for refusing to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, Dec. 5. (New York Times News Service)

OCTOBER 2017 TERM

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case made inevitable by Obergefell v. Hodges, the landmark ruling declaring same-sex marriage to be a constitutional right. The appeal seeks to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that found a small cake shop guilty of violating the state's public acc...

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