This SCOTUS Brief Is Good Enough to Eat. But Will Justices Bite?
Cake artists represented by Baker Botts included roughly three dozen mouthwatering photos in their Masterpiece Cakeshop amicus brief to make a point: Designing special occasion cakes is an expressive art.
September 18, 2017 at 02:40 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
If pictures are worth a thousand words, a brief recently filed in the high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Equal Rights Commission is many times longer than court rules allow.
The brief, filed by Baker Botts partner Evan Young, contains roughly three dozen photos of luscious wedding and other special-occasion cakes, ranging from one that looks like a silver pot brimming with crawfish waiting to be boiled, to a “Pistol Pete” cake for a couple who first met at Oklahoma State University. Amicus briefs like this one are limited to 9,000 words.
Filed on behalf of a group of “cake artists” across the country, the brief's stated aim is to illustrate “literally, through the images of their own work … that cake design and preparation is an art.”
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