Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County
Case Date: 05/05/1981
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Michael M. vs. Superior Court of Sonoma County, 450 U.S. 464, was a case brought before the Supreme Court in 1981 over the issue of gender bias in statutory rape laws. The petitioner argued that the statutory rape law discriminated based on gender and was unconstitutional. The court ruled otherwise. Sexual intercourse entails a higher risk for women than men. Thus, the court found the law just in targeting men as the only possible perpetrators of statutory rape.[1]
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