BenShalom v. Secretary of Army

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Army violated the First Amendment by discharging soldier solely because she stated she was a homosexual when there was no evidence of homosexual conduct
• “Strong policies compel the courts to give the military ‘the widest possible latitude’ in the administration of personnel matters.”
• regulation requiring discharge based on homosexual “tendencies, desire, or interest, but . . . without overt homosexual acts” held unconstitutional as violative of First and Ninth Amendment rights and right to privacy
• regulation authorizing discharge if reservist “evidences homosexual tendencies, desire or interest ...” held reviewable
• discharge fo r hom osexuality violated rights o f association and personal privacy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).