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How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the Supreme Court “acknowledged the individual’s constitutional right to privacy” in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965)
• acknowledging that “private medical information is ‘well within the ambit of material entitled to privacy protection,’ in part because it concerns intimate facts of a personal nature.”
• “It is difficult to imagine a more private matter than one's sexuality and a less likely probability that the government would have a legitimate interest in disclosure of sexual identity.”
• “[T]he concomitant constitutional violation was apparent notwithstanding the fact that the very action in question had not previously been held to be unlawful.”
• “It is difficult to imagine a more private matter than one’s sexuality and a less likely probability that the government would have a legitimate interest in disclosure of sexual identity.”
• “While we have not previously confronted whether forced disclosure of one’s sexual orientation would be protected by the right to privacy, we agree with other courts concluding that such information is intrinsically private.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).