Gay Rights and American Law

by Daniel R. Pinello

Book Overview

Daniel Pinello's exhaustive study analyzes how federal and state appellate courts treated the civil rights claims of lesbians and gay men between 1981 and 2000. Pinello examines 1,439 votes by 849 appellate judges in 398 decisions and opinions from 87 courts in all federal jurisdictions and 47 states. His investigation reveals that legal variables; judges' personal attributes; environmental factors (juridical ideology, consensual sodomy statutes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521012147
• ISBN13: 9780521012140
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 9.7"