Lawrence v. Texas
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lawrence-v-texas-207-6410442
title:
Lawrence v. Texas
text:
Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws criminalizing sodomy between consenting adults are unconstitutional. The Court reaffirmed the concept of a "right to privacy" that earlier cases had found the U.S. Constitution provides, even though it is not explicitly enumerated. It based its ruling on the notions of personal autonomy to define one's own relationships and of American traditions of non-interfere
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2003 U.S. Supreme Court case on anti-sodomy laws
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas
date created:
2003-05-29T12:54:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T04:49:48Z
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