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...joined his lonely dissents for years, Hugo Black might never have swung the court to incorporating almost all of the Bill of Rights into the due process clause of the 14th Amendment, thus protecting persons from improper state as well as federal action. Writing for the majority in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Douglas defined a "right of privacy" that forbade state bans on the use of contraceptive devices by married couples. That right is now emerging as a potential safeguard against laws that infringe on private manners and morals, such as unconventional sexual relations between consenting adults. The right...
...sequence of legal contortions, the Administration backed Kirk's position while criticizing his tactics. Kirk wheedled from the Administration a friend-of-the-court brief supporting his appeal of the Manatee case. This only pointed up the ambiguity of the Administration's position; Solicitor General Erwin Griswold at the same time filed a scathing Supreme Court memorandum criticizing Kirk's tactics...
...acceptance of illegitimate force, no matter how motivated, is unacceptable, and is, indeed, wholly inconsistent with the premises on which this University is founded," Griswold said...
...Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold spoke Saturday at a dinner held by the Law School to celebrate the end of its most recent fund campaign...
Speaking before 200 people, Griswold, Langdell Professor of Law, emeritus, and dean of Law School from 1946 to 1967, said. "I hope that there will not be too much yielding to student demands forrelevance. This is, I am inclined to think, a part of that same pressure of The Mass for mediocrity...