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Michigan officials condemn ‘reprehensible’ remarks from salon owner who refuses service to LGBT+ people

Traverse City business says trans and nonbinary people should ‘seek services at a local pet groomer’ days after Supreme Court ruling on discrimination protections

The Independent UK

Case or Controversy Requirement? What Case or Controversy Requirement?

The Supreme Court's misguided decision to grant Lorie Smith standing to pursue her entirely hypothetical claim against the State of Colorado in the web designer case.

Reason

SCOTUS returns to "separate but equal"

How the right made discrimination a First Amendment issue

Salon

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On Groff v. DeJoy and 303 Creative v. Elenis

Not blockbusters, maybe, but important cases nonetheless

Reason

Commentary: With its 303 Creative decision, the Supreme Court opens the door to discrimination

On the final day of Pride Month, the Supreme Court delivered a blow to gay rights. In 303 Creative vs. Elenis, the conservative supermajority on the court ruled, 6-3, that a web design company could deny its wedding website services to same-sex couples. For the first time in our history,…

Los Angeles Times

U.S. Supreme Court Protects Christian Designer’s Religious Freedom In Website Case

Colorado anti-discrimination law challenged as court rules against compelling speech.

Zenger

"What a Difference Five Years Makes"

What would Masterpiece have looked like with Justice Kennedy still on Court?

Reason

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What Will 303 Creative Mean for Social Media Regulation?

If you can't force a web designer to serve a gay wedding, can you force a web platform to serve a politician?

Reason

How to Read 303 Creative v. Elenis

The speech compulsion it forbids is not limited to wedding-website designers who object to same-sex marriage, but its principles should apply only to a narrow range of commercial products

Reason

The Colorado website designer's win is one of dozens of federal cases where religious beliefs and LGBTQ+ rights have clashed – and the pattern might not be what you think

Does a Colorado designer’s belief that marriage is between one man and one woman merit an exemption to state law barring discrimination against LGBTQ+ people? On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court decided 6-3 that the answer is yes: Requiring a conservative Christian business owner to create wedding websites for…

The Conversation

Fraud justice: SCOTUS duped by fake case

Far-right lawyers created a phony "victim" in made-up case — and the justice with the stolen seat wrote the opinion

Salon

A business can decline service based on its beliefs, Supreme Court rules – but what will this look like in practice?

At issue in one of this year’s most highly anticipated Supreme Court cases, 303 Creative v. Elenis, was what happens when someone’s free speech or beliefs conflict with others’ rights. Specifically, 303 Creative addressed whether a Colorado anti-discrimination law can require a designer who believes marriage is only between a…

The Conversation

Homophobic businesses in the US have a powerful ally: the US supreme court

The court is more interested in protecting the dignity of bigots than the dignity of gay couples denied services for who they are

The Guardian - US

Biden says supreme court ‘misinterpreted the constitution’ as he announces new student debt relief plan – as it happened

President’s ‘new path’ will rely on different law than one blocked by court to provide debt forgiveness to ‘as many borrowers as possible’

The Guardian - US

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Revealed: Christian legal non-profit funds US anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion organizations

Alliance Defending Freedom distributes hundreds of thousands of dollars to fringe groups attacking trans, gay and abortion rights

The Guardian - US

Well-funded Christian group behind US effort to roll back LGBTQ+ rights

Advocacy groups condemn Alliance Defending Freedom as ‘a danger to every American who values their freedoms’

Reason

Yale Law School Program with Kristin Waggoner (ADF), Nadine Strossen (ex-ACLU), and Robert Post (Former Dean)

seems to have gone very well.

Reason

A Likely Win for Free Speech

Last week's argument at the Supreme Court in 303 Creative v. Elenis.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Anti-discrimination law infringes on artists’ rights to free speech

A website designer asks SCOTUS to let her eschew work that contradicts her opposition to gay marriage. The implications are potentially sweeping.

Reason

The Annie Leibovitz Limiting Principle for 303 Creative

The ACLU inadvertently explains how Lorie Smith could prevail.

Reason

Prof. Michael McConnell (Stanford) on 303 Creative (the Web Site Designer / Same-Sex Wedding Case)

Prof. McConnell is one of the top First Amendment law scholars in the country, and I was delighted that he passed along this item: Much of the commentary on today's argument in 303 Creative starts from the premise that the case pits free speech (or maybe religious freedom) against LGBTQ…

The Guardian - US

The US supreme court is poised to strike another blow against gay rights

The court is hearing a case that could allow the kind of naked discrimination that the gay rights and civil rights movements fought so hard to end

The Conversation

Supreme Court signals sympathy with web designer opposed to same-sex marriage in free speech case

In front of the Supreme Court justices on Dec. 5, 2022 was 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis – a major case regarding LGBTQ rights and free speech.

Al Jazeera

US Supreme Court hears arguments challenging LGBTQ rights law

A Colorado website designer has requested exemption from a state law that could compel her to serve same-sex marriages.

Reason

Justice Alito Asks Questions in 303 Creative from Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty Amicus Brief

Justice Kagan confirms that J-Date is in fact a Jewish dating site.

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