Griswold
Proper noun
Meaning
A ghost town in California.
An unincorporated community in Manitoba, Canada.
An English habitational surname from Middle English from gris (“pig”) + wald (“forest”).
A placename
A locale in the United States.
A town in Connecticut; named for Roger Griswold, 22nd Governor of Connecticut.
A city in Iowa; named for railroad director J. N. A. Griswold.
An unincorporated community in Missouri; named for local merchant James Griswold.
(US, law, sexuality, US politics, informal, uncountable) Ellipsis of Griswold v. Connecticut. A 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case that legalized contraception, allowing access to contraceptives for married couples; and reaffirmed the existence of a right to privacy under due process following the 14th Amendment.
Coordinate terms: Eisenstadt, substantive due process
Examples
A later case, Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), extended the Griswold holding to unmarried persons as well.
But the two Justices who dissented in Griswold replied that Goldberg was mistaken to invoke the Ninth as authority for invalidating a state law, it only limits the federal government.
Because she gave the Old Lyme address, Griswold said that Ledge Light Health District must report her as an Old Lyme resident.
Chevy Chase reprises his role as the bumbling Clark Griswold from “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” in a new ad for Ford’s electric Mustang Mach-E that will air in tomorrow’s “Saturday Night Live” Christmas Special.
First Amendment rights were addressed in Griswold v. Connecticut concerning privacy, and Engel v. Vitale relative to free speech.
It had suggested that Griswold, a first-term Democrat, sent postcards encouraging dead people and those otherwise ineligible to vote to register.