Communications Question

While Position Paper  focused on understanding how the Supreme Court rulings are presented, this paper will focus on how you would preside over a court case. For the purposes of this paper, you will be asked to focus your attention on the pending case: 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis. While this case is still pending, it is a case that deals with a major facet of the first amendment. You will be asked to conduct your research on this case, identifying the social controversy around this case, the major points of this case, and how a decision on this case would impact the first amendment. To help organize this assignment please do the following:

  • Conduct research on 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis.
  • Find out the major questions being asked by this case.
  • Present the significance of this case.
  • What other cases are being referred by this case?
  • You should have at least 5 sources at the end of this process.

Once you have conducted enough research you will be tasked with writing a 4-5 pages paper that has two major parts:

  1. Summary of the case
    1. Think of this as trying to emulate the Syllabus for the case used in Position Paper I.
    2. You are going to basically layout the entire case.
  2. Your opinion on this case
    1. Since this case is still pending, you can present your own opinion on this case. Would you agree with Lorie Smith or disagree? Why? In your opinion you should support your decision with evidence.