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The Supreme Court: Privacy

  • Meyer v. State of Nebraska

    Issue: No one can teach a foreign language in any school until the student has passed the eighth grade.
    Ruling: Reveresed
    Effect: Allowed any student to learn a foreign language in a school.
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    Privacy cases

  • Olmstead v United States

    Issue: Telephone calls could not be recorded in order to incriminate someone if unethically produced.
    Ruling: affirmed.
    Impact: Law made to protect us from becoming witnesses against ourselves.
  • Griswold v. Connecticut

    Issue: A physician was charged for giving advice on preventing conception.
    Ruling: Reversed
    Impact: Allows the use of contraceptives and other forms to prevent conception
  • Stanley v. Georgia

    Issue: A man was arrested for possessing obscene films.
    Ruling: reversed and remanded
    Impact: Protects the rights to recieve information, regardless of their social worth.
  • Roe v Whalen

    Issue: A law violated the patient physician privacy due to how patients needed to be identified with their perscriptions.
    Ruling: Reversed
    Impact: The privacy between a doctor and his patient remain intact. Entirely
  • Carey v Population Services International

    Issue: Law makes it illegal to sell contraceptives to anyone under 16 years of age.
    Ruling; affirmed
    Impact: Must be 16 to use contraceptives and they must be purchased by a certified pharmacist.
  • Akron v Akron Center for Reproductive Health

    Issue: Requires certain conditions in order for a physician to perform an abortion.
    Ruling: Affirmed
    Impact: Resulted in that in most staes a physician needs a signed consent form and if one is a minor than permission from parents to do an abortion.
  • Bowers v Hardwick

    Issue: A man was arressted for commiting sodomy in his home
    Ruling: Reversed
    Impact: What happens in the bedroom stays in there.
  • Washington v. Glucksberg

    Issue: A lawsuit was filed due to the fact that it is illegal to assit in suicide.
    Ruling: affirmed
    Impact: Suicide is wrong but it is also just as wrong to assist in the act.