Griswold v. Connecticut

Griswold v. Connecticut, 1965 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that ruled government bans on the use of birth control unconstitutional. Griswold, the state director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, was convicted under a Connecticut law for providing medical advice about birth control to a married couple. The Court overturned the conviction on appeal, ruling that the law was an illegitimate imposition of state police power on marital privacy as guaranteed by the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 9th, and 14th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.