How have courts interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment in the context of "fundamental rights and liberty interests"?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Sanchez v. City of Fresno, 1:12-CV-00428-LJO-SKO (E.D. Cal. 2012):
interference with certain fundamental rights and liberty interests." Glucksberg, 521 U.S. at 720 (1997). Courts are instructed to resist the temptation to augment the substantive reach of the Fourteenth Amendment, "particularly if it requires redefining the category of rights deemed to be fundamental." Bowers v. Hardwick, 487 U.S. 186, 195 (1986), overruled on other grounds, Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
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