The U.S.Supreme Court's 2003 ruling in Lawrence v.Texas was an example of the Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court's ruling in Lawrence v. Texas struck down a Texas law criminalizing consensual same-sex intimate conduct, thereby overturning a prior ruling in the 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick. In doing so, the Court did not follow the doctrine of stare decisis (which holds that courts should adhere to precedent and not overturn prior decisions without a compelling reason). Instead, the Court found that the Bowers decision was "not correct when it was decided" and that it had caused "real harm to real people."

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