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· 11/6/1950

Johnson v. Muelberger

Citations

  • 340 U.S. 874
  • 71 S. Ct. 121
  • 95 L. Ed. 635
  • 1950 U.S. LEXIS 1440

How courts have described this case

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  • “[a] past enforcement effort often will confirm the reasonableness of a plaintiff’s subjective fear of prosecution”
  • rejected standing of Does, the heterosexual couple, because they did not allege a realistic threat of prosecution, only that the existence of the sodomy statute plus Hardwick’s arrest chilled their actions

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