I really can't resist this meme: "As evidenced by Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade. The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your LJ."
So my rule for myself was that I couldn't post on any decision that I had already seen posted. I was going to go with Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which ensured the right to contraception for married couples (not single people, alas, that had to wait until Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972), and also formed the basis for the right to privacy that Roe v. Wade relied upon. But someone already posted that one, so I'll have to go with U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (1936), which overturned the provisions of the Comstock Act that had declared birth control devices to be obscene and therefore illegal to send through the U.S. mail.
So my rule for myself was that I couldn't post on any decision that I had already seen posted. I was going to go with Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), which ensured the right to contraception for married couples (not single people, alas, that had to wait until Eisenstadt v. Baird in 1972), and also formed the basis for the right to privacy that Roe v. Wade relied upon. But someone already posted that one, so I'll have to go with U.S. v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (1936), which overturned the provisions of the Comstock Act that had declared birth control devices to be obscene and therefore illegal to send through the U.S. mail.
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