The legal organization which secured Jack Phillip’s religious freedoms in the infamous Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Commission case at the Supreme Court have done it again — this time with a former fire chief for the city of Atlanta. Alliance Defending Freedom represented Kevin Cochran, former 2012 Fire Chief Magazine “Fire Chief of the Year,” after the city of Atlanta fired him — not for poor performance, but for authoring a book on his personal time which mentions his Christian beliefs.

The city of Atlanta now has to pay Cochran $1.2 million following the December 2017 court ruling. The court determined that Atlanta’s rules restricting non-work speech were too broad; they allowed city officials to discriminate against views with which they disagree in an unconstitutional manner.