Colorado has agreed to pay over $1.5 million to cover legal fees for graphic designer Lorie Smith, who successfully challenged the state’s anti-discrimination law at the U.S. Supreme Court. The settlement comes months after the court ruled in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that Colorado violated Smith’s First Amendment rights by attempting to compel her to design wedding websites for same-sex couples against her religious beliefs.

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Colorado to Pay $1.5M in Legal Fees to Designer in Supreme Court Free Speech Case

Colorado officials have agreed to pay over $1.5 million to cover attorney fees for graphic designer Lorie Smith, who successfully challenged the state’s antidiscrimination law at the Supreme Court. The settlement, announced Tuesday, comes months after the high court ruled in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis that Colorado violated Smith’s First Amendment rights by attempting to compel her to create wedding websites for same-sex couples against her reli…

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Colorado to pay $1.5 million for stifling web designer’s free speech 

Colorado has agreed to pay over $1.5 million after violating the First Amendment rights of a graphic designer who took her case to the United States Supreme Court. The Court ruled in June that the state could not compel Lorie Smith and her design studio, 303 Creative, to create art that violates her religious beliefs. As a Christian, Smith believes that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Though she wanted to design wedding websites, C…

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Colorado Pays $1.5 Million For Violating Artist’s First Amendment Rights After Historic SCOTUS Case

Lorie Smith is the owner of 303 Creative, a graphic design firm based in Colorado. While generally happy to produce work for any paying customer, Smith wanted to offer wedding-related services exclusively to straight couples because complicity in the celebration of homosexual unions would otherwise “compromise [her] Christian witness.” Since Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act would have... The post Colorado tried forcing a Christian designer to …

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Colorado tried forcing a Christian designer to make websites for gay 'marriages.' Now, it has to pay up.

Graphic artist Lorie Smith beat Colorado at the Supreme Court when it ruled the Centennial State could not punish her for refusing to make a website for a same-sex wedding, upholding her First Amendment rights.



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Colorado pays $1.5M to artist who refused to make same-sex wedding site after her SCOTUS win

by Greg Piper   Graphic artist Lorie Smith beat Colorado at the Supreme Court when it ruled the Centennial State could not punish her for refusing to make a website for a same-sex wedding, upholding her First Amendment rights. Now the owner of 303 Creative is getting her attorney’s fees paid by the state as well. Smith’s lawyers at the Alliance Defending Freedom and Colorado Attorney General Philip Weiser notified the federal trial court Tuesday…

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Colorado Pays $1.5 Million to Artist Who Refused to Make Same-Sex Wedding Site After Her SCOTUS Win – The Ohio Star

Colorado will pay over $1.5 million as part of a settlement with a Christian business owner who won her case at the United States Supreme Court. #Colorado #303Creative #LGBT #religiousfreedom #samesexmarriage #SupremeCourt

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Colorado to pay over $1.5 million to settle lawsuit with Christian website designer

Colorado officials agreed to pay more than $1.5 million to a graphic design artist on Tuesday who challenged the constitutionality of a law that would compel her to violate her Christian beliefs, according to a religious legal group.

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Colorado Officials to Pay $1.5 Million in Fees to Web Designer

Colorado agreed to pay more than $1.5 million in attorneys’ fees following the conclusion of a case involving a graphic designer who did not want to create wedding websites for

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Colorado to pay $1.5 million in same-sex wedding websites case

Colorado has agreed to pay over $1.5 million in attorneys’ fees after a Christian graphic designer who refused to make a website for a same-sex wedding won in Supreme Court. Lorie Smith, the owner of 303 Creative, sued the Colorado Civil Rights Commission and the state’s attorney general. The Supreme Court ruled the state could not punish her for refusing to make a website for same-sex couples, upholding her First Amendment rights. “Colorado has…

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