Buck v. Bell
Significance, Virginia Approaches Its Courts With A "solution", Carrie Buck As A Test Case
Appellant
Carrie Buck
Appellee
Dr. J. H. Bell
Appellant's Claim
That Virginia's eugenic sterilization law violated Carrie Buck's constitutional rights.
Chief Lawyer for Appellant
Irving Whitehead
Chief Defense Lawyer
Aubrey E. Strode
Justices for the Court
Louis D. Brandeis, Oliver Wendell Holmes (writing for the Court), James Clark McReynolds, Edward Terry Sanford, Harlan Fiske Stone, George Sutherland, William Howard Taft, Willis Van Devanter
Justices Dissenting
Pierce Butler
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
2 May 1927
Decision
Upheld as constitutional Virginia's compulsory sterilization of young women considered "unfit [to] continue their kind".
Related Cases
- Matter of Romero, 790 P.2d 819 (1990).
- Fieger v. Thomas, 74 F.3d 740 (1996).
Sources
Encarta, http://encarta.msn.com/index/conciseindex/22/02247000.htm. Grolier Electronic Publishing, Inc.
Further Readings
- Cushman, Robert F. Cases in Constitutional Law, 6th ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1984.
- Smith, J. David, and K. Ray Nelson. The Sterilization of Carrie Buck: Was She Feebleminded or Society's Pawn. Far Hills, NJ: New Horizon Press, 1989.
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