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The appellants, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and its medical director were convicted of being accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception and following examination prescribed an anti-conception device or material for the wife's use.
Griswold v. Connecticut
Connecticut
It is a crime for any person to use any drug or article to prevent pregnacy.
Griswold
Claimed that the law violated the fourteenth amendment section one which states "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
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The law further stated "any person who assists, abets, counsels, causes, hires or commands another to commit any offense may be prosecuted and punished as if he were the principle offender."
First ruling of the court
The court found the apellants guilty and they were fined $100
The apellants took their case to the Supreme Court and said the final verdict of the Connecticut court violated the fourteenth amendment
Supreme Court
Ruled that the law in fact violated the first, third, fourth, and ninth amendments which made an entirely new amendment. Griswold won in a 7-2 vote.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0381_0479_ZO.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_griswold.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/griswold.html
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Gay Rights
Abortion Laws
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