Limon v. Kansas

Limon v. Kansas

Limon v. Kansas was the Kansas Supreme Court case that overturned the unequal, age-of-consent laws for homosexuals in Kansas. It was the first case to cite the U.S. Supreme Court decision Lawrence v. Texas as a precedent.

Matthew Limon was released from Kansas State Ellsworth Correctional Facility on November 3, 2005, after serving five-and-a-half years for consensual gay sex, when he was 18 and his partner was 14.

References

* [http://www.aclu.org/lgbt/discrim/11940res20050908.html Case background on ACLU website]
* [http://www.kscourts.org/kscases/supct/2005/20051021/85898.htm Kansas Supreme Court Ruling] , October 21, 2005
* [http://after-words.org/grim/weblog/2005/11/21/matthew_limon_case_update_and.shtml Update posted] , November 21, 2005


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