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"Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479 (1965)." Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. Gale. 2000. HighBeam Research. 4 Sep. 2013 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
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Seen in the perspective of the development of constitutional doctrine, Griswold stands among the most influential Supreme Court decisions of the latter part of the twentieth century. A full understanding of its effect on the constitutional future requires a look at Griswold's antecedents. Even seen narrowly, Griswold was something of a culmination. The birth control movement had made two previous unsuccessful attempts to get the Court to invalidate Connecticut's law forbidding use of contraceptive devices. In Tileston v. Ullman (1943) a doctor was held to lack standing to assert his patients' constitutional claims, and in Poe v. Ullman (1961), when a doctor and his patients sued in their own …
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