Word: griswold
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...famous ruling in 1965, Griswold vs. State of Conn., the U.S. Supreme Court found that "...specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance...." Among these penumbras was a zone of privacy--the marriage relationship. The Court ruled that a Connecticut birth control statute violated the Constitution by invading that zone...
...court carefully avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but it left little doubt about its opinion. It cited Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 Supreme Court decision holding that married couples cannot be prosecuted for using birth-control devices because there is a substantial right to marital privacy, "The import of the Griswold decision," said the Seventh Circuit, "is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state...
...Doug Griswold contributed two seconds in both the hammer and the shot put. In all, Harvard captured 10 of 12 possible places in the throwing events...
Both men readily conceded that such disobedience as the Negro sit-ins had shown once again the value of the practice. In those actions of the early 1960s, said Griswold, "perhaps what mattered was not merely the moral fervor of the demonstrators, or the justice of their cause, but also the way in which they conducted themselves." It was clear that neither he nor Morris thought that today's demonstrators possess much of the dignity and restraint that were in evidence then...
...amount of McLuhanalysis can give the complete answer, but there is a growing appreciation, as well as apprehension, of TV's power. Last week, in an address at Tulane's law school' U.S. Solicitor General Erwin Griswold said: "There may be real room to question whether we have psychologically caught up with the developments in communications speed and distribution, whether we are capable of absorbing and evaluating all of the materials which are now communicated daily to hundreds of millions of people...