The baker at the center of the case was sued by an attorney after his bakery refused to make a cake to celebrate her gender transition.

The ruling brings to a close a seven-year legal saga in which Jack Phillips had argued that his actions were lawful because he refused to make the cake only because of the cake’s message, not

The Colorado Supreme Court, by 4-3, declined to address the high-profile issue of a Christian baker's refusal to make a cake for a customer celebrating a gender transition, instead concluding the case was not properly filed in the first place.