“In the period of the 1960s through 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a set of canonical, key decisions expanding the constitutional doctrines of sexual liberty and privacy, equality, and substantive due process for women and sexual and gender minorities. The Court interpreted these principles to protect contraceptive use, abortion, interracial marriage, the private consumption…
The 5th Court of Appeals in Texas reversed a trial court’s judgment based on the state’s constitutional violations of the youth’s right to confrontation and offered the following language in support. “There are specific rules in Texas related to the testimony of a child, including the provision of a support person identified as “any person whose…
