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Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies For Lgbt Plaintiffs, Anita L. Allen
Privacy Torts: Unreliable Remedies For Lgbt Plaintiffs, Anita L. Allen
All Faculty Scholarship
In the United States, both constitutional law and tort law recognize the right to privacy, understood as legal entitlement to an intimate life of one’s own free from undue interference by others and the state. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (“LGBT”) persons have defended their interests in dignity, equality, autonomy, and intimate relationships in the courts by appealing to that right. In the constitutional arena, LGBT Americans have claimed the protection of state and federal privacy rights with a modicum of well-known success. Holding that homosexuals have the same right to sexual privacy as heterosexuals, Lawrence v. Texas symbolizes the …
And The Ban Plays On…For Now: Why Courts Must Consider Religion In Marriage Equality Cases, Matthew E. Feinberg
And The Ban Plays On…For Now: Why Courts Must Consider Religion In Marriage Equality Cases, Matthew E. Feinberg
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class
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