[lbo-talk] Now legal in texas!

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 13 14:01:52 PST 2008


the comments at the link are fun. http://volokh.com/posts/1202919393.shtml

Dildoes Going to the Supreme Court? The Texas ban on dildoes -- yes, it expressly mentions "dildo" -- has just been struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/06/06-51067-CV0.wpd.pdf

The law, the court held, violates Lawrence v. Texas right of "adult consensual sexual intimacy in the home."

On this, the Fifth Circuit disagrees with the Eleventh Circuit, which upheld a similar Alabama law last year. Sounds like there's a solid split, so there's a decent chance that the U.S. Supreme Court will step in to resolve this (though there's of course no guarantee).

Thanks to the invaluable How Appealing for the pointer.

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