‘Christmas Lawyer’ Jeremy Morris eyes Supreme Court review in battle with HOA over holiday light show
NY Post
The battle between a man who orchestrated massive Christmas extravaganzas and his former homeowners association could be appealed to the Supreme Court after a lower court issued its long-awaited ruling.
“It was made clear that a jury could find … that there was a hostile atmosphere created, that our family was discriminated against,” Jeremy Morris told Fox News Digital of the ruling.
Morris, an attorney, became popularly referred to as the “Christmas Lawyer” after gaining international notoriety for throwing a five-day holiday light show that drew thousands of revelers to his former home just outside of Hayden, Idaho.
In 2017, a jury unanimously agreed that his HOA discriminated against him on the basis of religion by trying to stop his Christmas show.
But in a stunning twist, a federal judge reversed that verdict and ordered Morris to pay the HOA more than $111,000 in legal fees.
Morris challenged the ruling in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard arguments in June 2020.
