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Oct. 25, 2022
Baker’s lawyer hopes high court will bolster free exercise case
Paul M. Jonna, along with Charles S. LiMandri and Jeffrey M. Trissell, represented Catharine Miller of Bakersfield before Kern County Judge J. Eric Bradshaw. He ruled that an application of anti-discrimination provisions in California civil rights law would burden the cake maker’s freedom of speech
Anticipating the state's appeal of his victory for a Kern County baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, attorney Paul M. Jonna said he expects help from a pending U.S. Supreme Court case involving a web designer in a similar dispute.
"I think the two rulings could exist separately if there were to be a bad ruling in that case," said the LiMandri & Jonna LLP partner. "I think all legal commentators, though, are ...
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