TAILIEUCHUNG - Gale Encyclopedia Of American Law 3Rd Edition Volume 12 P11

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law Volume 12 P11 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 87 3 That leaves to distinguish the rocksolid unamendable disposition of Roe from the readily overrulable Bowers only the third factor. T here has been the Court says no individual or societal reliance on Bowers of the sort that could counsel against overturning its holding . Ante at 16. It seems to me that the societal reliance on the principles confirmed in Bowers and discarded today has been overwhelming. Countless judicial decisions and legislative enactments have relied on the ancient proposition that a governing majority s belief that certain sexual behavior is immoral and unacceptable constitutes a rational basis for regulation. See . Williams v. Pryor 240 F. 3d 944 949 CA11 2001 citing Bowers in upholding Alabama s prohibition on the sale of sex toys on the ground that t he crafting and safeguarding of public morality . indisputably is a legitimate government interest under rational basis scrutiny Milner v. Apfel 148 F. 3d 812 814 CA7 1998 citing Bowers for the proposition that legislatures are permitted to legislate with regard to morality . rather than confined to preventing demonstrable harms Holmes v. California Army National Guard 124 F. 3d 1126 1136 CA9 1997 relying on Bowers in upholding the federal statute and regulations banning from military service those who engage in homosexual conduct Owens v. State 352 Md. 663 683 724 A. 2d 43 53 1999 relying on Bowers in holding that a person has no constitutional right to engage in sexual intercourse at least outside of marriage Sherman v. Henry 928 S. W. 2d 464 469-473 Tex. 1996 relying on Bowers in rejecting a claimed constitutional right to commit adultery . We ourselves relied extensively on Bowers when we concluded in Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc. 501 . 560 569 1991 that Indiana s public indecency statute furthered a substantial government interest in protecting order and morality ibid. plurality opinion see also id. at 575 Scalia J. concurring in judgment . .

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