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ZANT, WARDEN, GEORGIA DIAGNOSTIC AND CLASSIFICATION CENTER; YBARRA V. NEVADA; LAMB V. TEXAS; CLISBY V. ALABAMA; COLEMAN V. TENNESSEE

Citator

Cited By

• State v. COX, 627 So. 2d 1210 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993)
  …ether the class at issue has been subjected to purposeful discrimination, id. It has been recognized that “ ‘homosexuals have historically been the object of pernicious and sustained hostility,’” id., quoting Rowland v. Mad River Local School Dist., 470 U.S. 1009, 1014, 105 S.Ct. 1373, 1376-1377, 84 L.Ed.2d 392 (1985) (Brennan J., dissenting from denial of cert.), see Note, The Constitutional Status of Sexual Orientation: Homosexuality As A Suspect Classification, 98 Harv.L.Rev. 1285, 1299-1305 (1985); Note,…
• Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (U.S. 1986)
  …the circumstances of this case, a claim under the Equal Protection Clause may well be available without having to reach the more controversial question whether homosexuals are a suspect class. See, e. g., Rowland v. Mad River Local School District, 470 U. S. 1009 (1985) (Brennan, J., dissenting from denial of certiorari); Note, The Constitutional Status of Sexual Orientation: Homosexuality as a Suspect Classification, 98 Harv. L. Rev. 1285 (1985). Even if a court faced with a challenge to § 16-6-2 were to…
• Sergeant Perry Watkins v. United States Army, 875 F.2d 699 (9th Cir. 1989)
  …293-94; Frontiero, 411 U.S. at 684-85, 93 S.Ct. at 1769-70 (plurality). As the Army concedes,28 it is indisputable that “homosexuals have historically been the object of pernicious and sustained hostility.” Rowland v. Mad River Local School Dist., 470 U.S. 1009, 1014, 105 S.Ct. 1373, 1376-77, 84 L.Ed.2d 392 (1985) (Brennan, J., dissenting from denial of cert.). Recently courts have echoed the same harsh truth: “Lesbians and gays have been the object of some of the deepest prejudice and hatred in American…

Authorities Cited

• Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (U.S. 1976)