Spitzer v. United States

My colleague Michael Stokes Paulsen has a preview of a high-profile Supreme Court ruling due in 2010.  An excerpt:

This case presents the issue we carefully reserved in Lawrence. See Slip Op. at 18 (noting that that case did "not involve . . . prostitution"). We now conclude that the liberty recognized in Lawrence applies equally to private, consensual sexual conduct by adults, in whatever form of intimacy those adults design. The fact that the arrangement might, in some sense, be thought commercial does not necessarily indicate that it is anything other than consensual.