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When did the U.S. Supreme Court decide Lawrence v. Texas?
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided Lawrence v. Texas on June 26, 2003. In a 6–3 ruling, the Court held that a Texas law criminalizing certain intimate sexual conduct between consenting adults of the same sex was unconstitutional, thereby invalidating similar sodomy laws in other states and overturning the Court's previous decision in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986).1