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Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
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In *Griswold v. Connecticut* (1965) the Court first spelled out a right to privacy, striking down a law barring contraception.
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The Court found the right in the penumbras of several amendments read together, not in any clause naming it.
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An inferred right's scope rests on interpretation — later Courts can widen or narrow it.