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Griswold [8] and Dr. Buxton (PPLC medical volunteer), [9] opened a birth control clinic in New Haven, Connecticut, [10] "thus directly challeng[ing] the state law". [7] The clinic opened on November 1, 1961, and that same day received its first ten patients and dozens of appointment requests from married women who wanted birth control advice ...
Estelle Naomi Trebert Griswold (June 8, 1900 – August 13, 1981) was a civil rights activist and feminist most commonly known as a defendant in what became the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut , in which contraception for married couples was legalized in the state of Connecticut , setting the precedent of the right to privacy .
Griswold and Buxton were arrested by the New Haven Police nine days after the clinic opened. [11] The resulting case against Buxton and Lee, The State of Connecticut v. Estelle T. Griswold and C. Lee Buxton, was affirmed by the Connecticut Supreme Court in April 1964, providing evidence that the case was ripe. [12] The appeal, known as Whitney v.
Catherine Gertrude Roraback (September 17, 1920 – October 17, 2007) was a civil rights attorney in Connecticut, best known for representing Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton in the famous 1965 Supreme Court case, Griswold v.
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After the Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the use of contraception in 1965 with Griswold v. Connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the "emanations and penumbras" of the Bill of Rights, [14] a large group of women filed suit in federal court for the District of Connecticut to block enforcement of the state's abortion ...
An oversight commission fired Connecticut's top public defender on Tuesday after having accused her of a range of misconduct, including leveling unfounded racism allegations, mistreating employees ...
These decisions were revived long after McReynolds left the bench, to buttress the Court's announcement of a constitutional right to privacy in Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), and later the constitutional right to abortion in Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). McReynolds wrote the decision in United States v.