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Historic U.S. Court Cases - pt.4, Race, Gender, Sexual Orientation, & Disability
Reference KF 385 .A4 J64 2001
American Law Reports provide detailed discussions concerning legal issues with extensive summaries of relevant court cases.
Reference KF 132.A5...
- 40 ALR6th 375 - Actions by or Against Individuals or Groups Protesting or Picketing at Funerals
- 20 ALR6th 1 - Liability of Employer, Supervisor, or Manager for Intentionally or Recklessly Causing Employee Emotional Distress—Sexual Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, or Accusations Concerning Sexual Conduct or Orientation
- 8 ALR6th 667 - Validity and Application of Enactment Prohibiting Discrimination by Governmental Contractors on Basis of Sexual Orientation
- 7 ALR6th 135 - Imputation of Homosexuality as Defamation
- 105 ALR5th 217 - Sexual Conduct or Orientation as Ground for Denial of Admission to Bar
- 82 ALR5th 1 - Validity, Construction, & Application of State Enactment, Order, or Regulation Expressly Prohibiting Sexual Orientation Discrimination
- 80 ALR5th 469 - Examination & Challenge of State Case Jurors on Basis of Attitudes toward Homosexuality
- 80 ALR5th 255 - Validity, Construction, & Application of State or Local Enactments Regulating Parades
- 20 ALR4th 1009 - Validity of Statute Making Sodomy a Criminal Offense
- 54 ALR3d 897 - Prejudicial Effect of Prosecutor's Reference in Argument to Homosexual Acts or Tendencies of Accused which Are Not Material to His Commission of Offense Charged
- 27 ALR3d 1254 - Sale of Liquor to Homosexuals or Permitting Their Congregation at Licensed Premises as Ground for Suspension or Revocation of Liquor License
- 50 ALR Fed 516 - Validity, under First Amendment and 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, of public college or university's refusal to grant formal recognition to, or permit meetings of, student homosexual organizations on campus
Dishonorable Passions: Sodomy Laws in America, 1861-2003 by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
General Collection KF 9328 .S6 E84 2008
Contents:
- American body politics and the crime against nature, 1861-81
- From the sodomite to the homosexual, 1881-1935
- The antihomosexual Kulturkampf, 1935-61
- The case(s) against the crime against nature, 1935-61
- Homo equality and sodomy reform, 1961-69
- The crime against nature after Stonewall, 1969-75
- Gay civil rights and a new politics of preservation, 1975-86
- The crime against nature on trial, Bowers v. Hardwick,1986
- The lawyers and sodomy come out of their closets, 1986-2003
- Sodomy law at the Alamo, Lawrence v. Texas, 2003
- American public law after Lawrence
- Lawrencee and popular constitutionalism