LEGALST 39D Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Antonin Scalia, Strict Scrutiny, Equal Protection Clause
6 Sep 2016
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Chapter 2: the right of privacy and the penumbra of the bill of. Justice brandeis dissenting: the right to be let alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men. To protect that right, every unjustifiable intrusion by the government upon the privacy of the individual must be deemed a violation of the fourth. Planned parenthood, on the 50th anniversary of griswold v. ct. Fg became involved in decisions involving birth control by passing the. Comstock act in 1872 forbidding obscene materials from being sent through the interstate mails. Margaret sanger founded the first birth control clinic in 1916, the predecessor to planned parenthood. Ct law passed in 1879 criminalized the encouragement or use of birth control. Griswold, executive director of pp in ct and dr. buxton at yale decided to test the law and opened a birth control clinic in new haven; they were promptly arrested and found guilty.
