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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
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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.