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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

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

A later case, Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972), extended the Griswold holding to unmarried persons as well. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

Because she gave the Old Lyme address, Griswold said that Ledge Light Health District must report her as an Old Lyme resident. Source: Internet

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. Source: Internet

First Amendment rights were addressed in Griswold v. Connecticut concerning privacy, and Engel v. Vitale relative to free speech. Source: Internet

It had suggested that Griswold, a first-term Democrat, sent postcards encouraging dead people and those otherwise ineligible to vote to register. Source: Internet

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