Devescovi v. Ventura

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

DAVIS, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment. Plaintiffs commenced the underlying declaratory judgment action against Defendants. Plaintiffs request that this Court declare Minn.Stat. § 609.293 unconstitutional because it criminalizes voluntary acts of sodomy, including private consensual acts of sodomy regardless of sexual orientation, and therefore violates the fundamental right to privacy and right to intimate association under the United States Constitution. For the reasons that follow, the Court denies the…