Arlene's Flowers owner wants U.S. Supreme Court to review discrimination ruling
Barronelle Stutzman is taking the discrimination case against her Richland flower shop to the U.S. Supreme Court.
On Friday, Stutzman’s lawyers filed a petition with the nation’s highest court, asking the justices to review the February decision by the state Supreme Court.
When Stutzman lost her appeal at the state level, the 72-year-old grandmother said everything she has worked for and believes in couldn’t be destroyed and vowed to take her fight to Washington, D.C.
The state Supreme Court justices unanimously agreed that the owner of Arlene’s Flowers violated Washington’s anti-discrimination law and the Consumer Protection Act by declining to provide services based on sexual orientation.
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