• U.S. Supreme Court declines appeal over N.M. gay bias case

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a studio that refused to photograph a lesbian couple’s commitment ceremony, letting stand a New Mexico high court ruling that helped spur a national debate over gay rights and religious freedom.

    • 2013

  • N.M. photographer appeals to U.S. Supreme Court in gay bias case

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The nation’s highest court is being asked to overturn a New Mexico ruling that an Albuquerque business owned by gay marriage opponents violated a state anti-discrimination law in refusing to photograph a same-sex couple’s commitment ceremony.

  • N.M. Supreme Court rules against photographer in gay bias case

    SANTA FE, N.M. — A commercial photography business owned by opponents of same-sex marriage violated New Mexico’s anti-discrimination law by refusing to take pictures of a gay couple’s commitment ceremony, the state’s highest court ruled Thursday.

  • New Mexico Supreme Court hears appeal by photographer in gay bias case

    SANTA FE, N.M. — In a case that tests anti-discrimination protection for gays, a religious rights group told the New Mexico Supreme Court on Monday that a photographer who declined to shoot the commitment ceremony of a lesbian couple was exercising her rights to free speech and artistic freedom.

    • 2012

  • NM court upholds ruling that photographer discriminated against lesbian couple

    ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The New Mexico Court of Appeals this week ruled that a professional photographer who refused to take pictures of a gay couple’s commitment ceremony violated state anti-discrimination laws.