A nine-year battle in state and federal courts to uphold her First Amendment right to practice her faith in the workplace ended on Nov. 18 as Barronelle Stutzman announced her retirement and sale of the flower shop at the center of the case to its employees.
Stutzman, 77, from Richland, Washington, told reporters in a Washington, D.C., news conference that she has agreed to pay $5,000 to the plaintiffs and her attorneys will withdraw her request to the Supreme Court that it reconsider its rejection earlier this year of her appeal of a lower court decision.
