JOUR 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Summary Judgment, Secondary Liability, Hosiery
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Supreme court declined to recognize constitutional privacy rights for homosexuals. Court upheld a georgia law forbidding sex acts such as sodomy, even between consenting adults in private. Made sodomy a crime for everyone, including heterosexual married couples. In refusing to overturn the georgia law, the 5-4 majority said that the authors of the. Constitution were surely not trying to protect the rights of gay men and lesbians when they wrote the bill of rights. Court voted 6-3 to overturn a texas law similar to the georgia law that it had upheld in. 5-4 majority also voted to overturn decision in bowers. Arose when a houston police entered john lawrence"s apartment to investigate what turned out to be a false report of a disturbance. Found lawrence and another man engaged in anal sex. Two men were arrested & jailed overnight and fined each for violating texas" anti-sodomy law.
