BUCK V. BELL
274 U.S. 200 (1927)
NATURE OF THE CASE: This was a dispute over an order to sterilizing a mentally retarded
woman.
FACTS: Buck (P) was a feeble-minded white woman who was committed to a mental hospital. P
is the daughter of a feeble-minded white woman and the mother of a feeble-minded white
child. She was 18 at the time of her first trial. A law in Virginia allowed sterilization of
certain mental defectives upon the opinion of those running the institution to which the
mental defective is assigned to if that institution thought such a procedure was in the best
interests of the patient. The law was procedurally correct (see page 1030 Areen 4th) but the
order and such orders were attacked on substantive grounds. The Supreme Court of Appeals of
Virginia upheld the order of sterilization and the Supreme Court granted certiorari.
ISSUE:
RULE OF LAW:
HOLDING AND DECISION:
LEGAL ANALYSIS:
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