This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Richard Epstein of the Hoover

Institution, generously commenting on the Supreme Court decisions tumbling on the table,

the six to three decisions by the conservative majority. The story of affirmative action,

the story of student loans, these are sweeping matters to do with the whole nation, but

this particular story, Creative 303, is about one state Colorado that, for its own

reasons, past laws for non-discrimination. This led to the case called Creative 303,

where a web designer chose not to comply to an order from a customer who was making it

very clear that the customer associated with LGBTQ questioning one. In other words, the

question was, was the web designers discriminating by refusing to take the order? Colorado said,

yes, and now the Supreme Court has commented. And Professor, how to read this for a larger

matter? Because it seems very specific to Colorado.

Well, it's not. Let me correct you on one thing. In this particular case, they

saw the declaratory judgment before any customer could come in. But they were worried about

it, is what everybody worries about in this business. Somebody comes in, places an order,

knows it's going to be turned down, refers it to the Human Rights Commission in Colorado,

and then gets the goods that they want from somewhere else. And when you had the masterpiece case

that was decided some years ago, everything turned on the confusion associated with the

behavior of the Human Rights Commission when faced with actual charges. And they started to say

that anybody who doesn't serve people is guilty of the Holocaust. They use all sorts of terrible names.

And what happened was Justice Kennedy at the time said, I'm not going to talk about the straight-up

case. This is bad enough behavior. I'm going to remain. What's interesting about this case,

there's no misbehavior whatsoever on the part of the agency. So it's a clean first and

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