· 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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