This case challenged a Massachusetts law requiring parental notification in cases of minors seeking abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down this law as unconstitutional.
In this case, Poe et al. sued the state of Connecticut for a law (related to the Comstock Act of 1873) that prohibited the advertisement and distribution of contraceptives. The Court held that the Connecticut law violated the Due Process Clause of…
This landmark case extended the Right to Privacy to include abortion, effectively legalizing it nationwide. It also established the concepts of "viability" according to a trimester system. Full text, includes concurring and dissenting opinions.
In this case, Planned Parenthood of Southern Pennsylvania challenged a Pennsylvania law that required the following provisions to obtain an abortion: a minor had to notify their parent or guardian, a married person had to notify their spouse, and the…
This Supreme Court ruling said that abortion is not protected under the Constitutional Right to Privacy, and thus is an issue of state jurisdiction. This case overturned the Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade (1973).
This Supreme Court case overturned a Massachusetts law that forbade unmarried people from accessing contraceptive devices and medicines. The ruling extended the right to privacy from Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), expanding it to unmarried persons.
In this case, the Supreme Court ruled against an 1879 Connecticut law banning the use of all contraceptives. The court ruled that the Constitution protects the right to privacy within a marriage through the due process clause of the Fourteenth…
This U.S. Supreme Court case struck down a Nebraska law that prohibited teaching any non-English language in school, declaring that the law violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause. This case introduces the concept of "substantive due…