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22 Mar, 2013

New Merits Briefs Filed by Cockle Printing

2013-03-22T17:30:13-05:00March 22nd, 2013|

Reply Brief of Petitioners in Hollingsworth v. Perry, No. 12-144, filed on March 18, 2013 Brief for the City of Los Angeles Respondents in Am. Trucking Ass’ns, Inc. v. City of Los Angeles, No. 11-798, filed on March 18, 2013

14 Mar, 2013

The Long Life and Now Death of the Virginia Sodomy Statute

2019-03-18T18:47:42-05:00March 14th, 2013|Tags: , , , , , , |

Even though the Supreme Court invalidated this country’s sodomy laws ten years ago in Lawrence v. Texas, the State of Virginia has continued to press forward with prosecuting a few people for consensual sex acts. That is until yesterday, when a panel of the Fourth Circuit held the Virginia statue is unconstitutional [...]