The Ninth Circuit, analyzing the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), determined that DADT had to be subjected to heightened scrutiny, meaning that there must be an " important " governmental interest at issue, that DADT must " significantly " further the governmental interest, and that there can be no less intrusive way for the government to advance that interest.

Included are: VISTA ( Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, 1987 ), Discovery II ( NASA / GRC, 2002 ), Human Outer Planet Exploration ( NASA / MSFC, 2003 ), ICAN-II ( The Pennsylvania State University )

* 2003 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules in Lawrence v. Texas that gender-based sodomy laws are unconstitutional.

* Seattle Art Museum, Jacob Lawrence retrospective exhibition, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, February 6 – May 4, 2003.

" He Found His Muse at Lawrence High School ", New York Times, August 3, 2003

On August 11, 2003, Chris Allegretta officially handed the source code maintenance for nano to David Lawrence Ramsey.

* 2003: Lawrence v. Texas

* August 13 – Barney Liddell, American musician ( The Lawrence Welk Show ) ( died 2003 )

Seven states still have anti-cohabitation laws on the books, but they are almost never enforced and are now believed to be unconstitutional since the legal decision Lawrence v. Texas in 2003.

* Marian Moffett, Michael Fazio, Lawrence Wodehouse, ‘’ A World History of Architecture ’’, Lawrence King Publishing, ( 2003 ), ISBN 1-85669-353-8.

These results were published on February 1, 2004, by a team composed of Russian scientists at Dubna ( Joint Institute for Nuclear Research ), and American scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory .< ref name = 03Og01 >" Experiments on the synthesis of element 115 in the reaction < sup > 243 </ sup > Am (< sup > 48 </ sup > Ca, xn )< sup > 291-x </ sup > 115 ", Oganessian et al., JINR Preprints, 2003.

* Kaplan, Lawrence and William Kristol The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, San Francisco, Encounter Books, 2003.

The decision in Romer set the stage for Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ), where the Court overruled its decision in Bowers.

In 2003, Cato filed an amicus brief in support of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the few remaining state laws that made private, non-commercial homosexual relations between consenting adults illegal.

" The U. S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ) rendered the states ' remaining laws related to " sodomy " unconstitutional.

Lawrence v. Texas ( 2003 ) struck down a Texas state law that prohibited certain forms of intimate sexual contact between members of the same sex.

* Lawrence Cook ( actor ) ( 1930 – 2003 ), actor

In 2003, Kristol and Lawrence F. Kaplan wrote, " The War Over Iraq: America's Mission and Saddam's Tyranny ", in which the authors analyzed the Bush Doctrine and the history of US-Iraq relations.

In 2003, he and Lawrence Kaplan wrote The War Over Iraq, in which he described the reasons for removing Saddam.

* War Over Iraq: Saddam ’ s Tyranny And America ’ s Mission ( Co-author Lawrence Kaplan ) ( Encounter Books, 2003 ).

Lawrence Ari Fleischer ( born October 13, 1960 ) is a former White House Press Secretary for U. S. President George W. Bush, from January 2001 to July 2003.

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U. S. 558 ( 2003 ), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court.

On April 7, 2003, Sen. Rick Santorum referred to the oral arguments in Lawrence when asked his views on homosexuality: " We have laws in states, like the one at the Supreme Court right now, that has sodomy laws and they were there for a purpose .... And if the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery.

* 2003 – While being towed across the Barents Sea, the de-commissioned Russian submarine K-159 sinks, taking 9 of her crew and 800 kg of spent nuclear fuel with her.

: San Francisco Giants first baseman-outfielder Mark Sweeney, who spent 2003 and 2004 with the Rockies, said, " You wonder if some people are going along with it just to keep their jobs.

In the 2003 – 04 season, Charlton spent much of the campaign challenging for a Champions League place, but a late-season slump in form, combined with the sale of star player Scott Parker to Chelsea, left Charlton in 7th place, which was still the club's highest finish since the 1950s.

In 2003, a Gartner report estimated that more than $ 1 billion had been spent on software that was not being used.

In the 2003 – 04 season Hellas Verona struggled in Serie B and spent most of the season fighting off an unthinkable relegation to Serie C1.

The only non-Hindu PM was Paul Raymond Bérenger who spent 22 months in office from 2003 to 2005 thanks to an understanding between his party, the MMM, and Sir Aneerood Jugnauth's party, the MSM, prior to the 2000 elections.

As of 2003, the NIH was responsible for 28 %— about US $ 26. 4 billion — of the total biomedical research funding spent annually in the U. S., with most of the rest coming from industry.

In 2003, the Government in Canada spent $ 2, 998 USD per capita on healthcare as compared to $ 5, 711 USD per capita in the United States, while almost every Canadian citizen is fully covered.

In 2003, nearly $ 3 million was spent to renovate Tolliver Hall into a modern cyber student center.

Both failed to live up to the expectations ; Kariya spent most of the 2003 – 04 season injured and Selanne scored only 32 points ( 16 goals and 16 assists ) in 78 games.

Cauty told an Australian Big Issue writer in 2003 that all the money they made as The KLF was spent, and that the royalties they accrued post-retirement amounted to approximately one million pounds:

The band announced its farewell tour during the Academy of Country Music awards in 2002, and spent most of 2003 saying good-bye to the fans.

In 2003, 205, 382 tourists spent 1, 173, 205 nights in Dithmarschen, most of them in Büsum ( 756, 630 nights ), which is ranked before Friedrichskoog ( 75, 654 ) and Büsumer Deichhausen ( 33, 811 ).

The band spent 2003 on an extensive worldwide tour in support of Strays, including, in a homecoming of sorts, a summer headliner slot in a reincarnated Lollapalooza U. S. tour.

The Stooges spent the years between 2003 and 2008 touring extensively, playing shows on five different continents.

In a 2003 article with Cato Chairman Emeritus William A. Niskanen, he called neoconservatism a " particular threat to liberty perhaps greater than the ideologically spent ideas of left-liberalism.

Lewis also spent three years ( 2000 – 2003 ) as a guitarist with the reformed Electric Prunes, contributing to the band's Artifact album ( 2002 ).

* Vojislav Jakic ( 1932 – 2003 ), a Serbian artist who spent most of his life in a small town of Despotovac producing drawings up to five meters long evoking the memories of his own life, his obsessions with death, and reflections on art.

He spent part of 2002 and 2003 living in New York City, and has since moved to Berlin, Germany.

Her other books include One Hundred And One Days: A Baghdad Journal which describes the three months she spent in Iraq in the build-up to the U. S .- led invasion in 2003, and most recently Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, an account of the time she spent in Chechnya after the war.

Government crackdowns have resulted in the arrest of sellers of recreational drug paraphernalia, such as actor Tommy Chong, who spent time in prison in 2003 for having his name used on bongs for sale via the internet.

The party continued in the government as a junior partner until the 2003 parliamentary election, after which it spent four years in the opposition.

He spent five years on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives until he was caught in 2003.

The controversial Manhunt ( also 2003 ) employed a snuff movie theme and allowed the player to kill antagonists with varying levels of violence, dependant on how much time was spent sneaking behind them.