Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Erwin N. Griswold, dean of the Law School, Monday praised the Supreme Court's recent decisions extending the rights of suspects in criminal cases...
...Griswold, speaking at the annual dinner in honor of the judiciary at the American Bar Association Convention in Miami, did not praise any of the Court's decision specifically. Instead he urged his listeners to examine the cases in the light of "the long view of history...
...nine Justices denounced the only state law in the U.S. that banned the use of contraceptives by anyone, including married couples. It had been challenged by Yale Gynecologist C. Lee Buxton and Mrs. Estelle Griswold, executive director of the Connecticut Planned Parenthood League, who had been convicted ($100 fines) for dispensing contraceptives at a birth-control clinic in New Haven. "A very bad law," agreed dissenting Justice Hugo Black. "An uncommonly silly law," agreed dissenting Justice Potter Stewart...
...Similarly," Griswold wrote, "we continue to have difficulty in producing an adequate number of high marks, particularly in the light of the caliber of those who are admitted here. Of course, we should not have 'inflation' in grading and I do not think that it is helpful to have a lot of fancy marks for their own sake...
...Griswold suggested that the stiff competition for admission to the Law School had had its effects on grades. "In the current admissions situation, it is not surprising that we have relatively few failures...