Skinner v. Oklahoma
Significance, Oklahoma Prisoner Sterilization, Marriage And Procreation Rights, Impact, Further Readings
Petitioner
Arthur Skinner
Respondent
State of Oklahoma
Petitioner's Claim
That a state law authorizing sterilization of selected felons held in the Oklahoma penitentiary violates the Fourteenth Amendment's due process of law guarantee.
Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
W. J. Hulsey, H. I. Aston, Guy L. Andrews
Chief Lawyer for Respondent
Mac Q. Williamson, Attorney General of Oklahoma
Justices for the Court
Hugo Lafayette Black, James Francis Byrnes, William O. Douglas (writing for the Court), Felix Frankfurter, Robert H. Jackson, Frank Murphy, Stanley Forman Reed, Owen Josephus Roberts, Harlan Fiske Stone
Justices Dissenting
None
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
6 May 1942
Decision
Unanimously upheld Skinner's claim and overturned two lower courts' decisions holding that he was a suitable vasectomy candidate.
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- Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927).
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- Loving v. Commonwealth of Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967).
- Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
- Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 U.S. 833 (1992).
- Romer v. Evans, 116 S. Ct. 1620 (1996).
- Kass v. Kass, 91 NY 2nd 554 (1998).
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