Amicus Brief to U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Human Rights Commission

35 Pages Posted: 29 Nov 2017

Date Written: October 30, 2017

Abstract

On October 30, 2017 the Public Rights/Private Conscience Project, a research initiative of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, filed a brief in Masterpiece Cakeshop. The brief was written in coordination with our colleagues at Muslim Advocates, on behalf of 15 religious minority groups and civil rights advocates. The brief argues that the broad interpretation urged by Masterpiece Cakeshop is bad for religious liberty itself - especially for religious minorities such as Muslims, Sikhs, and other minority religious groups. The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project's position is that the Court’s early religious liberty cases were built on equality principles and that the two are mutually reinforcing values - thus the Court should interpret religious liberty in ways that are equality-enhacing, not equality-diminishing.

The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project is Directed by Elizabeth Reiner Platt; Professor Katherine Franke is the Faculty Director of the Project, and Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law.

Keywords: Masterpiece Cakeshop, religious liberty

Suggested Citation

Franke, Katherine M. and Platt, Elizabeth Reiner, Amicus Brief to U.S. Supreme Court in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Human Rights Commission (October 30, 2017). Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-566, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3078262

Katherine M. Franke (Contact Author)

Columbia Law School ( email )

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HOME PAGE: http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Katherine_Franke

Elizabeth Reiner Platt

Columbia Law School ( email )

435 West 116th Street
New York, NY 10009

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