August 2019 Bar Bulletin
Ingersoll, et al. v.
Arlene’s Flowers
No. 91615-2 (9-0)
June 6, 2019
Justice Gordon McCloud Writes for the Court
The United States Supreme Court has tasked us with deciding whether the Washington courts violated the Unites States Constitution’s guaranty of religious neutrality in our prior adjudication of this case. We have fully reviewed the record with this issue in mind, and we have considered substantial new briefing devoted to this topic. We now hold that the answer to the Supreme Court’s question is no: the adjudicatory bodies that considered this case did not act with religious animus when they ruled that the...