The exterior of Sweet Cakes by Melissa in Gresham in 2013. The business has since closed. On Monday, the Supreme Court threw out an Oregon court ruling against bakers here who refused to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The move keeps the high-profile case off the court’s election-year calendar but orders state judges to take a new look at the dispute between the lesbian couple and the bakery owners. (Everton Bailey Jr./Oregonian file photo via AP) The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the case of an Oregon cake shop fined by the state after its owners refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. But the high court also ordered the Oregon Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision upholding the state’s fine in light of another wedding cake case from Colorado the Supreme Court decided last year. Aaron and Melissa Klein, the owners of Sweet Cakes by Melissa of Gresham, sought to take their case to the Supreme Court last year. They want a court to overturn an order to pay $135,000 in damages, imposed by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries in 2015 after the agency found the Kleins had […]
