TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 12 P9

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 12 P9 fully illuminates today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, important documents and more. Legal issues are fully discussed in easy-to-understand language, including such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, physician-assisted suicide and thousands more. | MILESTONES IN THE LAW LAWRENCE V. TEXAS 67 This Court accords equal protection standing only to those persons who are personally denied equal treatment. See id. at 743-744 quoting Allen v. Wright 468 . 737 755 1984 . While the petitioners clearly have been prosecuted under section it is not established in this record that they possess the same-sex orientation that they contend is singled out for discrimination by the statute. As such the writ of certiorari should be dismissed as improvidently granted or standing should be denied to these petitioners for lack of an adequate record to establish an equal protection violation against them personally. C. The Texas Legislature did not purposefully discriminate in the passage of section . Although the petitioners assert that the group targeted and harmed by the Homosexual Conduct Law is of course gay people see Brief of Petitioners 33 and much of their briefing is related to the unequal protection of the laws with respect to homosexuals see id. at 40-50 section does not expressly classify its offenders on the basis of their sexual orientation. Rather it criminalizes homosexual conduct without reference to a defendant s sexual orientation. Lawrence 41 at 353 see also Editors of the Harvard Law Review Sexual Orientation and the Law at 16 Harvard University Press 1990 Although litigants and courts have assumed that samesex sodomy statutes classify based on sexual preference the statutes actually prevent all persons from engaging in same-sex sodomy regardless of sexual orientation. .24 The focus of section on conduct rather than sexual orientation does not foreclose equal protection review. A statute though facially neutral may still be challenged as constitutionally infirm under the Equal Protection Clause if the challenger can prove that the statute was enacted because of a discriminatory purpose. Personnel Administrator of 24The authors of the Harvard Law Review treatise go on to assert .

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