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Essay Archive - Court Case Number 15: Bowers v. Hardwick (June 30, 1986)
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 Federa....
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