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Colorado justices explore limits of anti-discrimination law in Masterpiece Cakeshop appeal
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Members of the Colorado Supreme Court explored on Tuesday the tension between LGBTQ customers’ ability to be free from discrimination in the marketplace and business owners’ competing right not to be forced to express messages that violate their conscience. During oral arguments, some justices noted the difficulty of disentangling customers’ protected characteristics, like race or…
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Questions arise about ‘fake’ customer in SCOTUS anti-discrimination case
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On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court will likely hand down a decision in a case out of Colorado that could permit artistically oriented businesses to decline service to LGBTQ customers. On June 29, however, The New Republic reported that part of the evidence submitted in the lawsuit of 303 Creative v. Elenis references a purportedly gay customer who sought…
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Judge dismisses man’s lawsuit against Walmart for erroneous shoplifting arrest
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Even though prosecutors ended up dismissing the shoplifting-related charges against an elderly Asian man, he failed to show that Walmart should be liable for its role in his erroneous arrest, a federal judge ruled last month. Meng Uoy Chang asserted a Walmart store in Timnath had violated his rights after employees identified Chang as a…
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Federal judge orders Denver-area hotel operator to make ADA improvements
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A federal judge has found an Arapahoe County hotel to be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and ordered its operator to make accessibility improvements, following the company’s unusual move of agreeing with all of the allegations against it. Equally unusual, plaintiffs John Meggs and the Florida-based advocacy group Access–4–All balked when the hotel…
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Couple at center of Masterpiece Cakeshop case speak out
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It’s been a long and tiring Monday for Charlie Craig and David Mullins. The couple whose civil rights fight led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in favor of the baker who refused them a wedding cake has spent the day at the office of Americans for Civil Liberties, which represented them in the six-year-long…
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Colorado House Republicans offer amendments to remake civil rights commission
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The House Judiciary Committee Tuesday voted 10-1 to draft a bill to extend the Colorado Division of Civil Rights and the civil rights commission for nine more years. House Republicans offered six amendments that attempted to make sweeping changes to the commission, without success. All of the Republican amendments failed on a 4-7 party-line vote. The…
