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New York in ''People v. Onofre'', 51 N.Y.2d 476, 434 N.Y.S.2d 947, 415 N.E.2d 936 (1980) and Pennsylvania in ''Commonwealth v. Bonadio'', 490 Pa. 91, 415 A.2d 47 (1980) become the first states to hold same-sex sodomy laws unconstitutional. No other state's highest court will do so again until the Kentucky Supreme Court issues its holding in Kentucky V. Wasson in 1992 .


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