Family Law: Supreme Court Cases
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- Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974) Supreme Court rules that "freedom of personal choice in matters of marriage and family life is...protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
- Lawrenece v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003) Supreme Court rules that a Texas ban on private consensual sex between adults of the same sex is uconstitutional
- Moore v. City of East Cleveland, 431 U.S. 494 (1977) Landmark family rights case holding that an ordinance criminalizing family members who live together was unconstitutional.
- Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510 (1925) Ruling that families have a constitutional right to send their children to public or private school
- Prince v. Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158 (1944) Holding that the responsibility of caring for and nurturing a child resides with parents first, "whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder."
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