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Bowers Vs. Hardwick

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 30, 1986

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  1. Eisenstadt Vs. Baird US Supreme Court · Mar 22, 1972
  2. Stanley Vs. Georgia US Supreme Court · Apr 07, 1969
  3. Prince Vs. Massachusetts US Supreme Court · Jan 31, 1944
  4. Loving Vs. Virginia US Supreme Court · Jun 12, 1967
  5. Griswold Vs. Connecticut US Supreme Court · Jun 07, 1965
  6. Roe Vs. Wade US Supreme Court · Jan 22, 1973
  7. United States Vs. Howell US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1870
  8. Conley Vs. Gibson US Supreme Court · Nov 18, 1957
  9. U.S. 186 (1986) U.S. Supreme Court Bowers v. Hardwick
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  10. U.S. 186 (1986) Bowers v. Hardwick
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  11. d) The fact that homosexual conduct occurs in the privacy of the home does not affect the result. Stanley v. Georgia
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  12. The District Court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim, relying on Doe v. Commonwealth's
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  13. summary affirmance in that case did not require affirmance of the District Court. Relying on our decisions in Griswold v. Connecticut
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  14. and Roe v. Wade
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  15. and, for all intents and purposes, have decided this case. The reach of this line of cases was sketched in Carey v. Population
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  16. Services International, 431 U. S. 678 , 431 U. S. 685 (1977). Pierce v. Society
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  17. of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510 (1925), and Meyer v. Nebraska
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  18. Skinner v. Oklahoma
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  19. supra, and Eisenstadt v. Baird
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  20. Fourteenth Amendment to confer a fundamental individual right to decide whether or not to beget or bear a child. Carey v. Population
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  21. the Court has sought to identify the nature of the rights qualifying for heightened judicial protection. In Palko v. Connecticut
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  22. A different description of fundamental liberties appeared in Moore v. East
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  23. Id. at 431 U. S. 503 (POWELL, J.). See also Griswold v. Connecticut
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  24. the result should be different where the homosexual conduct occurs in the privacy of the home. He relies on Stanley v. Georgia
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  25. See Baker v. Wade
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  26. Dronenburg v. Zech
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  27. to give plenary consideration to the merits of this case rather than rely on our earlier action in Doe. See Usery v. Turner
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  28. Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia
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  29. U. S. 651 , 415 U. S. 671 (1974). Cf. Hicks v. Miranda
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  30. decision involving prosecution for private homosexual sodomy under this statute for several decades. See Thompson v. Aldredge
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  31. as the Court purports to declare, ante at 478 U. S. 191 , than Stanley v. Georgia
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  32. U. S. 557 (1969), was about a fundamental right to watch obscene movies, or Katz v. United
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  33. Olmstead v. United
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  34. U. S. 113 , 410 U. S. 117 (1973), quoting Lochner v. New
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  35. Herring v. State
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  36. complaint expressly invoked the Ninth Amendment, see App. 6, and he relied heavily before this Court on Griswold v. Connecticut
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  37. to determine if the allegations provide for relief on any possible theory. Page 478 U. S. 202 Bramlet v. Wilson
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  38. Parr v. Great
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  39. Due v. Tallahassee
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  40. Conley v. Gibson
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  41. Thornburgh v. American
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  42. a privacy interest with reference to certain decisions that are properly for the individual to make. E.g., Roe v. Wade
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  43. Pierce v. Society
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  44. without regard for the particular activities in which the individuals who occupy them are engaged. E.g., United States v. Karo
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  45. Payton v. New
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  46. Rios v. United
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  47. While it is true that these cases may be characterized by their connection to protection of the family, see Roberts v. United
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  48. S. 619 (1984), the Court's conclusion that they extend no further than this boundary ignores the warning in Moore v. East
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  49. U.S. Supreme Court Bowers v. Hardwick
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  50. Doe v. Commonwealth's
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