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Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County 450 U.S. 464 (1981) was a United States Supreme Court case over the issue of gender bias in statutory rape laws. The petitioner argued that the statutory rape law discriminated based on gender and was unconstitutional. The court ruled otherwise. Sexual intercourse entails a higher risk for women than men. Thus the court found the law just in targeting men as the only possible perpetrators of statutory rape.