Anthony Michael Kreis

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Lawrence Meets Libel: Squaring Constitutional Norms with Sexual-Orientation Defamation

Introduction Yonaty v. Mincolla1 may have been the most anachronistic judicial ruling of 2011. In Yonaty, a New York trial court held that false imputations of homosexuality still constituted per se defamation2 under New York law.3 The ruling came only a few days before the New York Times reported that the New York State Senate was one vote shy of...