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Sex appealed : was the U.S. Supreme Court fooled? / Janice Law.

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Sex appealed : was the U.S. Supreme Court fooled? / Janice Law.
Author
Law, Janice.
Publication
Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, c2005.

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xi, 273 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
When Deputy Joseph Richard Quinn and three other veteran Harris County, Texas, sheriff's deputies with guns drawn, burst into an apartment the night of September 17, 1998, searching for a black male with a gun, their shocking discovery in the back bedroom triggered a chain of events resulting in a 2003 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas that state laws criminalizing consensual, adult sodomy are unconstitutional. The landmark Lawrence ruling is the trigger event kicking away roadblocks to gay marriage. Lawrence remains in headlines today, in a larger cultural war, over adoption, employee benefits, the military's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, and related issues of judicial activism.
Subject
  • Garner, Tyrone > Trials, litigation, etc
  • Gay liberation movement > United States
  • Homosexuality > Law and legislation > United States
  • Lawrence, John Geddes > Trials, litigation, etc
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ISBN
1571688889
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library