Right to Privacy: A Man's Home Is No Longer His Castle - Bowers v. Hardwick, The
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Wilson, Bruce A.
Issue Date
1987
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20
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Journal Article
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INTRODUCTION|Writing on the right to privacy, Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis believed that "[i]t is the unwarranted invasion of individual privacy which is reprehended, and to be, so far as possible, prevented." The notion of personal liberty has been considered among those fundamental rights necessary for individuals to possess if the society in which they live is to be free. Courts have struggled, for over two decades, to determine the scope and definition of the right to privacy. The interests involved are just as vehement, and the process just as difficult, today as in decades past. The latest decision to share in the struggle is Bowers v. Hardwick. Bowers placed before the United States Supreme Court the question of whether homosexual sodomy, as prohibited by Georgia's anti-sodomy statute, fell within the constitutionally protected right...
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20 Creighton L. Rev. 833 (1986-1987)
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Creighton University School of Law