Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)


In August of 1982, Michael Hardwick was charged with violating the
Georgia statute criminalizing sodomy by committing that act with another adult
male in the bedroom of Hardwick's home. Hardwick then brought suit in the
Federal District Court, therefore challenging the constitutionality of the
statute as it criminalized sodomy. Hardwick asserted that he was a practicing
homosexual, that the Georgia statute, as administered by the defendants, placed
him in imminent danger of arrest and that the statute for several reasons
violates the Federal Constitution.
I oppose the Court of Appeals decision that Michael Hardwick's complaint
was dismissed by evidence seen through rights readily identifiable in the
Constitution's text involved much more that the imposition of the Justices' own
choice of values on the States and the Federal Government, the Court sought to
identify the nature of rights for heightened judicial protection.......

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Title: Court Case Number 15: Bowers V. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
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