Walder Vacuflo, Inc. v. Illinois Human Rights Commission, et al.

Whether the Illinois Supreme Court and Appellate Court’s refusal to consider this matter violates the First and Fourteenth Amendment rights of Petitioner Walder Vacuflo, Inc. to access to the Courts (by arbitrarily dismissing its appeal due to a procedural snafu).

Whether the decision below against Petitioner was out of step with this Court’s recent decisions in Masterpiece Cake Shop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Com’n, et al., 171 S.Ct. 1719 (2018); and Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 2021 U.S. LEXIS 3121, *23-24, 141 S. Ct. 1868, 28 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 882, 2021 WL 2459253 (U.S. June 17, 2021), and as such, does a circuit split exist between the Third and Tenth Circuits (in which the Fulton and Masterpiece cases were decided favorably towards the business proprietors asserting religious freedom) and the Seventh Circuit (which covers the jurisdiction of Illinois in which the Petitioner’s religious freedom and access to the courts under the First and Fourteenth Amendments has been violated by the Illinois Human Rights Commission).

Whether the Illinois Human Rights Commission (IHRC) violated Petitioner’s First and Fourteenth Amendments under the U.S. Constitution, to freedom of speech and freedom of religion, when it found Petitioner liable for discriminating against Respondents Mark and Todd Wathen because of their sexual orientation by denying them public accommodations, and assessing damages and attorney’s fees against Petitioner totaling $80,000, and ordering Petitioner to cease and desist from disallowing same sex weddings