Unequal toplessness laws
Roxanne Ujhelyi Szakacs v. Florida
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Roxanne Ujhelyi Szakacs asks the Supreme Court to review whether Florida may punish a woman for non-lewd breast exposure under sex-neutral criminal laws when comparable exposure by a man is lawful, including when the restriction depends on others’ reactions.
- What's at stake
- Szakacs’s challenge to Florida’s use of these criminal laws remains unresolved because the Supreme Court has not agreed to hear it.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The case comes from Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, and the petition challenges how sex-neutral criminal laws may be applied differently to women and men.
Question presented
1. Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment permits a State to apply a facially sex-neutral criminal statute to punish a woman for the non-lewd exposure of her breasts in a public place when comparable exposure by a man is lawful, and the sex based distinction appears nowhere in the statutory text. 2. Whether a State may constitutionally apply a generally worded disorderly-conduct statute to punish otherwise lawful, non-lewd conduct based on the objections or reactions of third parties, where the resulting prohibition operates differently according to sex.
What happens next
The Court must decide whether to agree to hear the case. No argument or decision date is set.
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Sources
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