POE V. ULLMAN 367 U.S. 497 (1961) CASE BRIEF

POE V. ULLMAN

367 U.S. 497 (1961)

NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over ripeness over the ability to get birth control advice. It was an appeal from a declaratory judgment.

FACTS: Ps were married women who had a need for but could not get birth control advice because of a statute. Contraceptives were regularly available in Connecticut drug stores. These are appeals from a decision of the Supreme Court of Errors of Connecticut affirming dismissals of complaints in three cases in which the plaintiffs sued for declaratory judgments that certain Connecticut statutes which prohibit the use of contraceptive devices and the giving of medical advice on their use violate the Fourteenth Amendment by depriving the plaintiffs of life and property without due process of law. The complaints alleged that two plaintiffs who were married women needed medical advice on the use of contraceptive devices for the protection of their health, but that a physician, who was the plaintiff in the third case, was deterred from giving such advice because the State's Attorney intended to prosecute offenses against the State's laws and he claimed that the giving of such advice and the use of such devices were forbidden by state statutes. However, it appeared that the statutes in question had been enacted in 1879, and that no one ever had been prosecuted there under except two doctors and a nurse, who were charged with operating a birth control clinic, and that the information against them had been dismissed after the State Supreme Court had sustained the legislation in 1940 on an appeal from a demurrer to the information.

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