Support for this case was galvanized by a dissenting opinion authored four years prior which argued that liberty was a "rational continuum" and condemned the court's dismissal of several suits filed against State's Attorney Ullman.
Support for this case was galvanized by a dissenting opinion authored four years prior which argued that liberty was a "rational continuum" and condemned the court's dismissal of several suits filed against State's Attorney Ullman. Those cases had been dismissed over a lack of standing, prompting the namesake appellant and C. Lee Buxton to induce a $100 fine by violating a seldom-used law that was called "uncommonly silly" in Potter (*) Stewart's dissent. Goldberg's concurrence relied shakily on the 9th Amendment in this case, expanded in Eisenstadt v. Baird, while Harlan's reliance on substantive due process supplanted Douglas's majority opinion about the "penumbras" of the Bill of Rights. Famously establishing a constitutional right to privacy and a major precursor to Roe v. Wade, for 10 points, name this 1965 case that struck down a law banning contraceptives in Connecticut.
Support for this case was galvanized by a dissenting opinion authored four years prior which argued that liberty was a "rational continuum" and condemned the court's dismissal of several suits filed against State's Attorney Ullman.
Griswold v. Connecticut