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| Supreme
Court of the United States |
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| Estelle T. GRISWOLD
et al. Appellants, |
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| STATE OF CONNECTICUT. |
| No. 496. |
| Argued March 29, 1965. |
| Decided June 7, 1965. |
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Defendants were convicted of violating
the Connecticut birth control law. The
Circuit Court in the Sixth Circuit,
Connecticut, rendered judgments, and
the defendants appealed. The Appellate
Division of the Circuit Court affirmed,
and defendants appealed. The Connecticut
Supreme Court of Errors,
151 Conn. 544, 200 A.2d 479, affirmed,
and the defendants appealed. The Supreme
Court, Mr. Justice Douglas, held that
the Connecticut law forbidding use of
contraceptives unconstitutionally intrudes
upon the right of marital privacy.
Reversed. |
| Mr. Justice Black and Mr. Justice
Stewart dissented. |
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| West Headnotes |
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[1]
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Planned Parenthood League's executive
director and medical director who had
been convicted as accessories for giving
information, instruction, and medical
advice to married persons as to means
of preventing conception had standing
to question constitutionally of Connecticut
law forbidding use of contraceptives.
C.G.S.A. §§ 53-32,
54-196;
U.S.C.A.Const. art. 3, § 1 et seq.
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[2]
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The Supreme Court does not sit as a
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[3]
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the spectrum of available knowledge.
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[4]
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of inquiry, freedom of thought, and
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in that context is a form of expression
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included in the First Amendment its
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guarantees fully meaningful.
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3,
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