Griswold v. Connecticut
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Griswold v. Connecticut | |
Court | Supreme Court of the United States |
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Citation | |
Date decided | June 7, 1965 |
Followed by | |
Eisenstadt v. Baird |
Holding
Connecticut's law banning the distribution of contraceptives is an unconstitutional burden on the "right of marital privacy."
Reasons
William O. Douglas: "The foregoing cases suggest that specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance."
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