Posted on 10/08/2024 5:38:06 PM PDT by T Ruth
Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips’ over 12-year legal battle to defend his free speech rights ended Tuesday.
The Colorado Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit against Phillips after finding the attorney who challenged him in 2017 for declining to create a cake celebrating a male-to-female gender transition did not properly file the case.
“Enough is enough. Jack has been dragged through courts for over a decade. It’s time to leave him alone,” ADF senior counsel Jake Warner said in a statement. “Free speech is for everyone.”
The attorney, Autumn Scardina, called Masterpiece Cakeshop to request a “a pink birthday cake with blue frosting” symbolizing gender transition on the same day the Supreme Court announced it would hear Phillips first case in June 2017.
Scardina initially filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission. After the state and Phillips reached a settlement and the case was closed, Scardina filed a new lawsuit in state court in 2019.
The court held Tuesday that Scardina should have appealed the commission’s decision to close the case rather than bringing a new claim under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA). (RELATED: Supreme Court Sides With Christian Web Designer In Compelled Speech Case)
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Yes! And it should be the Legal “System” (i.e. courts, judges and lawyers) that bear the brunt of any judgments.
Meaning if Joe Smith sues the “Legal System (could be the bar in each state or a LLC owned by the lawyers)” and the “Legal System” loses, the “system has funds on hand to pay the judgment.
How so you say? Each attorney and judge posts a bond of $100,000 with his/her state bar, that’s how.
And, venue for any such case against the “lawyers” should be permitted to be set in any contiguous state.....plaintiff’s choice. This will not eliminate politics and corruption but it will reduce it.
Attorney’s and judges love to impose bonds on the rest of the world when they screw up. It’s only fair that the lawyers have to do the same.
In any event, our legal system has become so utterly rotten and corrupt and third world and protected by arcane rules and laws and practices that have glommed on to the system over 300 years that it’s way past time to level the playing field.
“Brilliant response! I would also have charged them double the usual!”
Well, that goes without saying. 8-)
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