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The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v.Texas (2003) held laws criminalizing consensual homosexual activity between adults unconstitutional. [1]In State v.Whiteley (2005), the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled that the crime against nature statute, N.C. G.S. § 14-177, [2] is not unconstitutional on its face because it may properly be used to criminalize sexual conduct involving minors ...
On February 29, 2000, citing Title VII case law, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which covers Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Guam, Hawaii, Montana, Nevada, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon and Washington, ruled that a transgender woman serving a prison sentence appropriately stated a claim of sex ...
House Bill 142 (HB 142) is a 2017 law that was enacted in the state of North Carolina that repealed House Bill 2.The bill states that all "state agencies, boards, offices, departments, institutions, branches of government, including The University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System, and political subdivisions of the State, are preempted from regulation of access ...
Tribal law specifies that the marriage "between a man and a woman" is recognized if a license is obtained from a register of deeds in their county of residence or the Cherokee Court; however, tribal law also states that all marriages, which have been solemnized according to the laws of North Carolina or any other state or Native American nation ...
After entering the home of John Lawrence, Houston police discovered Lawrence performing sexual acts with another man and arrested them both for breaking a Texas law. [124] In Lawrence v. Texas (2003), the Texas law, which prohibited engaging with a member of your sex in a sexual act, made its way to the Supreme Court where they struck down the ...
North Carolina's Senate and House voted minutes apart Wednesday to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill limiting LGBTQ+ instruction in the early grades, immediately making it law. It also ...
House Bill 607, Various Court Changes: Makes changes affecting the North Carolina court system. Under Section 1a of the bill, dismissed charges and not guilty verdicts shall not be expunged ...
(The Center Square) – Federal legislation passing the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday has mirror language to North Carolina’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act that became law on Aug ...