English to Polish Law/Patents Law (general)

Gay Rights
Lawrence v. Texas'4 is now the leading Supreme Court decision involving the constitutional rights of gay people. The irony is that although the opinion might in places read like a “gay decision,” it is hardly that. Rather than create a constitutional entitlement for gay people alone, the decision much more broadly announced a sub¬stantive due process right of adult sexual intimacy for all Ameri¬cans. But since heterosexuals already enjoyed an unspoken right to lead sex lives safe from government intrusion, Lawrence is also a kind of equal protection ruling for extending this unofficial right to same-sex couples. This becomes clear after a walk through the opinion.A five-justice majority invalidated the Texas law on substantive due process grounds. Rather than narrowly finding a “fundamental .....