Abstract:Judge Leonard Moore surely made some enemies when he submitted his dissent in the Second Circuit's 2-1 ruling in the 1966 case Boutilier v. INS. The case involved a gay Canadian citizen who faced deportation because U.S. policy viewed homosexuality as constitutive of a "psychopathic personality" and thus an excludable trait at the border. This unsuccessful appeal, which failed again when the U.S. Supreme Court reviewed and affirmed the decision the following year, found Moore sympathetically citing Alfred Kins… Show more
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