Poe v. Ullman
Case Date: 05/04/1961
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Poe v. Ullman
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued March 1–2, 1961
Decided June 19, 1961
Full case name
Poe et al. v. Ullman, State's Attorney
Prior history
Appeal from the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut
Subsequent history
147 Conn. 48, 156 A. 2d 508, appeal dismissed.
Holding
Connecticut law barring possession of birth control not ripe for constitutional challenge because of lack of enforcement.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Earl Warren
Associate Justices
Hugo Black · Felix Frankfurter
William O. Douglas · Tom C. Clark
John M. Harlan II · William J. Brennan, Jr.
Charles E. Whittaker · Potter Stewart
Case opinions
Majority
Frankfurter, joined by Warren, Clark, Whitaker
Concurrence
Brennan (in the judgment of the court only)
Dissent
Douglas
Dissent
Harlan
Dissent
Stewart
Dissent
Black
Overruled by
Griswold v. Connecticut (381 U.S. 479, 1965)
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Poe v. Ullman
Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497 (1961)[1], was a United States Supreme Court case that held that plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, and banned doctors from advising their use, because the law had never been enforced. Therefore, any challenge to the law was deemed unripe, because there was no actual threat of injury to anyone who disobeyed the law. The same statute would later be challenged yet again (successfully) in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).
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