Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2004

Publication Title

State and Local Law News

Keywords

Supreme Court, Fourteenth Amendment

Abstract

Discusses the Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas, 123 S. Ct. 24 72 (2003). Writing for the majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy held that the Texas anti-sodomy statute, by criminalizing adult consensual sexual conduct, violated the petitioners' vital interests in liberty and privacy as protected by the substantive due process doctrine under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Volume

27

Issue

2

Included in

Courts Commons

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