Sentences with phrase «texas sodomy»

Significantly, his majority opinion two years ago in Lawrence v. Texas, the Texas sodomy case, showed strong support for a constitutional right to privacy, the bedrock upon which the Roe decision rests.

Interpreting the Supreme Court's 2003 opinion, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down convictions of two gay men under a Texas sodomy law, the 1st Circuit held that Lawrence did not require it to invalidate DADT.

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And although I have argued that moral reasoning under general concepts like «liberty» is a very uncertain business, we can still note that Texas and elsewhere sodomy laws in general were seldom enforced.

The treatment of sodomy in Texas did not mesh well with any version of traditional or familiar morality.

But the logic of the matter Nino saw at work as early as Romer v. Evans (1996), and yet even more sharply in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), when the Court struck down the (notably unenforced) law on sodomy in Texas.

Only four states had such a law, and in Texas and elsewhere sodomy laws in general were seldom enforced.

Another round in the judicial wars began in June with the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas invalidating laws in 13 states prohibiting private, consensual adult sodomy.

They would love to outlaw abortion and bring back sodomy laws like the ones struck down in Texas.

A news release said that Kiehn correctly predicted some of the year's most important cases, including Grutter v. Bollinger, the University of Michigan affirmative action case, and Lawrence v. Texas, the challenge to Texas» same - sex sodomy law.