Legal Opinion
Thomas v. Anchorage Equal Rights Commission
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 4, 2000No. Nos. 97-35220, 97-35221PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge McKEOWN; Concurrence by Judge O’SCANNLAIN; Dissent by Judge KLEINFELD
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
This is a case in search of a controversy. Several landlords mount a First Amendment free exercise of religion and free speech challenge to the Alaska housing laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of marital status. We do not address this constitutional question, however, because this pre-enforcement challenge presents a threshold issue of justiciability. No prospective tenant has ever complained to the landlords, let alone filed a complaint against them. Neither the Alaska…
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