Griswold v. Connecticut
Significance, 1879 Law Alive And Well, On To The Supreme Court, Decision Reverses Convictions
Appellants
Charles Lee Buxton, Estelle T. Griswold
Appellee
State of Connecticut
Appellants' Claim
That Connecticut's birth-control laws violated its citizens' constitutional rights.
Chief Lawyers for Appellants
Tom Emerson, Fowler Harper, Harriet Pilpel, Catherine Roraback
Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Joseph B. Clark
Justices for the Court
William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas (writing for the Court), Arthur Goldberg, John Marshall Harlan II, Earl Warren, Byron R. White
Justices Dissenting
Hugo Lafayette Black, Potter Stewart
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
11 May 1964
Decision
Reversed Griswold's and Buxton's lower court convictions for providing contraceptive information to married couples and struck down all state laws forbidding the use of contraceptives by such couples.
Sources
Garrow, David J. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making of Roe v. Wade. New York: Macmillan, 1994.
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