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Lee v. The United Kingdom: A Trend Toward Heightened Pleading Standards?  

April 11, 2022

By Clare Ryan Introduction In analogous cases across the Atlantic, cakeshop owners—and the customers they refused to serve—asked their nations’ highest courts: what is the proper balance between LGBTIQ[1] anti-discrimination protections and a business’ religious objections? In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission and Lee v. Ashers Baking Co., the United States Supreme Court […]