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Carpenter Dale

Flagrant conduct :The story of Lawrence v. Texas, how a bedroom arrest decriminalized gay Americans - New York W W Norton Company 2012 - xi

Contents:
A crime of deep malignity;
The city and the cause;
The defendants and the troublemaker;
The department and the deputies;
The intrusion;
Uncivil disobedience;
A probable explanation for an improbable case;
The homosexual status law;
From the jail to the bar;
From the gay bar to the bar;
Into the Texas courts;
The constitutional case takes shape;
The politics of law;
The constitutional mainstream;
Mismatch at the Supreme Court;
Respect for their private lives;
Epilogue : sweet land of liberty.

ISBN: 9780393062083

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Trials - Sodomy - Texas 2. Homosexuality - Law & Legislation - Criminal provisions3. Gays - Legal Status - U S A 4. Texas - Trials - Litigation

Dewey Class. No.: 305.900000 / CAR