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· 3/22/1989

Magnus Electronics, Inc. v. Masco Corp.

Citations

  • 871 F.2d 626

How courts have described this case

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  • stating that, because sexual intimacy between same-sex partners can be criminalized, sexual orientation can not be a suspect or quasi-suspect classification
  • “[h]omosexuality is not an immutable characteristic; it is behavioral and hence is fundamentally different from traits such as race, gender or alienage, which define already existing suspect and quasi-suspect classes”

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Judges: Bauer, Flaum, Wood

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