Legal Opinion

Country Mill Farms, LLC v. City of East Lansing

District Court, W.D. Michigan

Decided November 16, 2017No. 1:17-cv-487PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART MOTION TO DISMISS

Paul L. Maloney, United States District Judge

Stephen Tennes believes marriage is a sacramental union between one man and one woman. Tennes promotes his farm, Country Mill, as a place to host weddings. In conformity with his beliefs, Tennes will not host weddings on his farm between same-sex couples. He has written about his beliefs on Country Mill’s Facebook page, and expressed those beliefs as the policy at County Mill. Following Tennes’s most recent announcement, the East Lansing Farmer’s Market declined Tennes’s 2017…

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