A gynecologist at the Yale School of Medicine, C. Lee Buxton, opened a birth control clinic in New Haven in conjunction with Estelle Griswold, who was the head of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut. They were arrested and convicted of violating the law, and their convictions were affirmed by higher state courts.

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects the liberty of married couples to use contraceptives without government restriction. [1]

Appellants, the Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and its medical director, a licensed physician, were convicted as accessories for giving married persons information and medical advice on how to prevent conception and, following examination, prescribing a contraceptive device or material for the wife's use.

Griswold v. State of Connecticut, legal case, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 7, 1965, that found in favour of the constitutional right of married persons to use birth control. The state case was originally ruled in favour of the plaintiff, the state of Connecticut.

The Supreme Court concluded that the Connecticut law, as applied to married couples, violated the Fourteenth Amendment because their use of contraception fell within the “zone of privacy” protected by various guarantees in the Bill of Rights.

Griswold v. Connecticut was a Supreme Court case that famously inferred that a right to privacy existed within the Constitution, which does not explicitly exist in the document. The case was over a Connecticut law that banned the use of any contraception for married couples which received multiple legal challenges prior to this case.

2017年3月16日 · Griswold v. Connecticut was the first case to establish the right to privacy within a marriage. Although the right is not expressly stated in the Bill of Rights, the Court acknowledged that many implied rights exist.

2009年1月1日 · In Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), the Supreme Court invalidated a Connecticut law that made it a crime to use birth control devices or to advise anyone about their use.

Appellant Griswold is Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut. Appellant Buxton is a licensed physician and a professor at the Yale Medical School who served as Medical Director for the League at its Center in New Haven—a center open and operating from November 1 to November 10, 1961, when appellants were arrested.

Griswold v. Connecticut marked the first time that the Court recognized a Constitutional right to privacy. The Supreme Court heard two related cases the following decade that cited this precedent.