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Constitutional Law - Police Power - Equal Protection - Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse Statute, Louis Bader
Constitutional Law - Police Power - Equal Protection - Voluntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse Statute, Louis Bader
Duquesne Law Review
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has held that the Pennsylvania voluntary deviate sexual intercourse statute is beyond the valid exercise of the state's police power and is violative of the equal protection clauses of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Commonwealth v. Bonadio, 490 Pa. 91, 415 A.2d 47 (1980).
Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment, Richard A. Stevens
Constitutional Law - Fourteenth Amendment - Due Process Clause - Civil Rights - Section 1983 - Corporal Punishment, Richard A. Stevens
Duquesne Law Review
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that a public school student severely injured by the use of disciplinary corporal punishment can press substantive due process claims under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 for deprivation of the fourteenth amendment right to bodily security.
Hall v. Tawney, 621 F.2d 607 (4th Cir. 1980).