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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Bowers v. Hardwick"”.
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Bowers v. Lawrence: the Narratives of the Supreme Court
… examines the rhetoric of the Court's opinions in Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas from a narrative approach informed by theories on the rhetorical situation. The Bowers majority opinion is framed around themes of history, morality and a reductionist understanding of sexual orientation …
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Dobbs is Different: Evaluating the Dobbs Decision's Lack of Strategy Compared to Landmark Sexual Privacy Cases
… cases before Dobbs, namely Roe v. Wade (1973), Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), and Lawrence v. Texas (2003). After a thorough examination of the literature and outline of the strategic models, I will evaluate each case to identify how the decision was made strategically. I will then examine the …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… Court," briefs and Court opinions in the <italic>Bowers v. Hardwick</italic> and <italic>Lawrence and Garner v. Texas</italic> cases, two of the most significant LGB rights cases, covering a span of nearly twenty years. Despite virtually identical casefacts, the Court handed down differing …
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Judicial rhetoric and radical politics: sexuality, race, and the fourteenth amendment
“Judicial Rhetoric and Radical Politics: Sexuality, Race, and the Fourteenth Amendment” takes up U.S. judicial opinions as performances of sovereignty over the boundaries of legitimate subjectivity. The argumentative choices jurists make in producing judicial opinion delimit the grounds upon which …