The Supreme Court dodges a case involving a baker's refusal to serve gay customers on religious grounds, sending it back to the lower courts
The court's decision puts off a major case for next term and allows the issue to further percolate in the courts below. The court took over three months, discussing the case behind closed doors, to render Monday's summary decision. The timing suggests the justices were debating different ways of resolving the case, short of putting it on the calendar for next term.It was a summary order of two sentences with no noted dissents.
Read More"By asking the state courts to reconsider their ruling in light of Masterpiece Cakeshop, the Justices are, in effect, asking the Oregon courts if a similarly narrow basis is available for resolving this case -- even though the parties have framed the case as presenting a broader conflict between the constitutional rights to religious liberty and same-sex marriage.
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