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Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 US 479 (1965)

Griswold was a landmark US Supreme Court case in which the Court held a Connecticut law criminalizing counseling couples about contraception and/or prescribing contraceptive devices was a violation of privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause. The Court held that the law (see below) improperly operated directly on an intimate relationship between husband and wife, and the physician's role as their medical provider.

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