Is Bowers v. Hardwick still good law?

478 U.S. 186 (1986)

✗ Has been overruled

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Bowers (upholding criminalization of same-sex intimacy) was overruled by Lawrence v. Texas (2003).

Later authority

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003)overruled

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