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April 16, 2024, 8:11 PM UTC

Photographer’s Suit Over Gay Wedding Work Remanded by 6th Cir.

Patrick Dorrian
Patrick Dorrian
Reporter

A Christian photographer’s lawsuit contending a Louisville, Ky., anti-bias ordinance infringed her religious right to refuse to provide services for same-sex weddings was sent back to a lower court Tuesday by the Sixth Circuit in the wake of two US Supreme Court rulings and her move out of state.

Those developments warranted a remand, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said. Both the photographer, Chelsey Nelson, and the city, were appealing a Kentucky federal court’s rulings on her free speech and free exercise of religion claims.

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