Bloomberg Law
June 17, 2019, 1:47 PMUpdated: June 17, 2019, 10:52 PM

Justices Avoiding Tough Topic in ‘Cake’ Cases, Scholars Say (1)

Patrick L. Gregory
Patrick L. Gregory
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Jake Holland
Jake Holland
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Bakery owners fined $135,000 for refusing on religious grounds to make custom cakes for a same-sex couple’s wedding won’t get to make their case at the U.S. Supreme Court, for now.

The justices on June 17 told the Oregon Court of Appeals to take another look at its ruling in Klein v. Or. Bureau of Labor & Indus., which upheld the state’s public accommodation law under which they were fined.

Legal scholars said the court’s instruction to consider the matter anew in light of what many considered to be a non-decision in a similar case last year, again ...

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