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Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
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In *Lawrence v. Texas* (2003) the Court struck down laws criminalizing private consensual conduct between adults.
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The ruling extended the inferred privacy right from the household decisions of *Griswold* to intimate life generally.
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The privacy line of cases did not move in one direction — some applications survive, one was overruled.