Administrative Law
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Case Summary: Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
584 U.S. 617 (2018)
Baker Jack Phillips refused to make a custom wedding cake for a same-sex couple on religious grounds, and the Colorado Civil Rights Commission found he had violated the state public-accommodations law. The Supreme Court reversed 7-2 (Kennedy J.), but narrowly: it held the Commission had shown unconstitutional hostility to Phillips's faith — a commissioner had likened his beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust, and the Commission had treated other bakers more leniently. The Court did not decide whether a business has a free-speech or free-exercise right to refuse such services; that question was later answered (for expressive products) in 303 Creative v. Elenis (2023).
Case Summary: Entick v Carrington (1765)
(1765) 19 St Tr 1029; 95 ER 807
The Court of Common Pleas held unanimously that a general warrant from the Secretary of State had no legal basis. Every invasion of private property is a trespass, and government may do nothing unless the law expressly permits it.
Administrative Law in India: Definition, Sources & Examples
Administrative law governs how public authorities exercise power in India. It draws on the Constitution, delegated legislation, and judicial review to protect citizens from arbitrary state action.