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Legal, Civil Rights Groups Chime In On High Court Cake Row

Law360, Los Angeles (November 13, 2017, 10:47 PM EST) -- A host of civil rights organizations including legal-oriented advocacy groups has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Christian baker's contention that his First Amendment rights enabled him to overstep state discrimination laws when he refused to make a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Center for Constitutional Rights and a handful of others chimed in to the wedding cake dispute, arguing that if the high court agreed that Masterpiece Cakeshop and its owner, Jack C. Phillips, can refuse service to customers based on their...

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