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The ‘Sweet Cakes by Melissa’, bakery in Gresham Oregon refused in providing a wedding cake to a same-sex couples in 2013 and then this dispute was started. Now on 2^nd July 2015, Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) ruled out that owners of this bakery Melissa and Aaron Klein should pay damages total 135,000 U.S dollars to the claimants Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer. According to Oregon law, any kind of business should not distinguish or refuse service that based on sexual orientation. They should not move away their customers because of disability, age, race, religion or sex.

The Equality Act of 2007 of Oregon law defines an exemption for religious schools and organizations. But it doesn’t allow owners of private businesses to refuse services and illegitimately distinguish against any potential customers. The Bureau of Labor and Industries issued final order and awarded 60,000 U.S dollars to in damages to Laurel Bowman-Cryer and 75,000 U.S dollars in damages to Rachel Bowman-Cryer for sensitive suffering assurgent directly by illegal prejudice. It is further said that this amount is not fines or civil penalties that are revengeful in nature, but this amount is related to damages to harm suffered by the claimants.

This final decision issued today in which charged totally 135,000 U.S dollars in sensitive damages. This order indicates that non-economic damages are constant with the previous orders of the agency, like an earlier decision against a Bend dentist in the matter of Andrew W. Engle. Melissa Klein published a facebook status that we have been charged 135,000 in sensitive damages but we will not keep silence on this decision.