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Key Privacy Cases
Memorization of some key Right to Privacy ruling
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Undergraduate 4
09/03/2009

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Roe v. Wade
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Case where Supreme court ruled that a mother may abort her pregnancy until the baby reaches "viability"
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Planned Parenthood v Danforth
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Supreme Court ruled that a woman may obtain an abortion without the husband's consent.
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Bowers v. Hardwick
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Upheld Georgia law banning sodomy, even within a private home.
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Lawrence v. Texas
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Supreme Court ruled a Texas anti-sodomy law unconstitutional, overturning previous Bowers v. Hardwick decision.
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Bellotti v. Baird
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Court Rules that teenagers do not need parental consent to obtain an abortion.
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Meyer v. Nebraska
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Overturned a Nebraska law forbidding teaching of a foreign language before high school
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Griswold v. Connecticut
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Supreme Court ruled against a statue prohibiting use of contraceptives
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Stanley v. Georgia
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Overturned a rule prohibiting possession of obscene materials in a private home.
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