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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.

Additional topics

Law Library - American Law and Legal InformationNotable Trials and Court Cases - 1963 to 1972