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Legal Citation: 381 U.S. 479 (1964)

Appellants
Charles Lee Buxton, Estelle T. Griswold

Appellee
State of Connecticut

Appellants' Claim
That Connecticut's birth-control laws violated its citizens' constitutional rights.

Chief Lawyers for Appellants
Tom Emerson, Fowler Harper, Harriet Pilpel, Catherine Roraback

Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Joseph B. Clark

Justices for the Court
William J. Brennan, Jr., Tom C. Clark, William O. Douglas (writing for the Court), Arthur Goldberg, John Marshall Harlan II, Earl Warren, Byron R. White

Justices Dissenting
Hugo Lafayette Black, Potter Stewart

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
11 May 1964

Decision
Reversed Griswold's and Buxton's lower court convictions for providing contraceptive information to married couples...