Christian Photographer Wins Lawsuit Over Louisville Gay Bias Ban

Louisville, Ky., owes a Christian photographer nominal damages and remains barred from enforcing its anti-bias ordinance against her business for refusing to provide services for same-sex weddings, a federal judge ruled.

Chelsey Nelson’s bid for damages in the “long-running case” over the Louisville-Jefferson County metro government’s chilling of her free speech through fear of enforcement of its Fairness Ordinance was vindicated by two intervening rulings by the US Supreme Court, the US District Court for the Western District of Kentucky said Tuesday.

The decision came on remand of Nelson’s case from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ...