"Lawrence" is a reference to the case Lawrence v. Texas. In 2003, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision invalidating state laws that criminalized same-sex sexual activity, with the liberal ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in an interview with NewsNation’s Leland Vittert, was asked if he would hypothetically lead a challenge against Lawrence v. Texas, which (if successful) could ...

John Lawrence, attorney Mitchell Katine and Tyron Garner celebrate the landmark Supreme Court ruling on a Texas anti-sodomy law during a gay Pride parade in Houston on June 28, 2003.

Texas, a landmark 2003 decision that found state sodomy laws were unconstitutional. The historic legal battle started here in Harris County back in 1998. John Lawrence and Tyron Garner were gay ...

Lawrence v. Texas presents a challenge to laws in Texas and three other states — Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri — that make it a crime for same-sex couples to engage in sexually intimate ...

Lawrence v. Texas, issued 20 years ago this month, came before the court at a time when stigma, social norms and violence led many gay Americans to keep their private lives hidden.

Both the 1973 abortion case and the gay sex case, known as Lawrence v. Texas, were decided based on the idea of a constitutional right to privacy.

Lawrence v. Texas, issued 20 years ago this month, came before the court at a time when stigma, social norms and violence led many gay Americans to keep their private lives hidden.