<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> U.S. Const . amends . I, III, IV, V, IX, XIV; Conn . Gen. Stat. § § 53 - 32, 54--196 (rev. 1958) </Td> </Tr> <P> Griswild v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), is a landmark case in the United States about access to contraception . The case involved a Connecticut "Comstock law" that prohibited any person from using "any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purpose of preventing conception ." The court held that the statute was unconstitutional, and that "the clear effect of (the Connecticut law ...) is to deny disadvantaged citizens (...) access to medical assistance and up - to - date information in respect to proper methods of birth control ." By a vote of 7--2, the Supreme Court invalidated the law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy", establishing the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices . This and other cases view the right to privacy as a right to "protect (ion) from governmental intrusion ." </P> <P> Although the Bill of Rights does not explicitly mention "privacy", Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the majority that the right was to be found in the "penumbras" and "emanations" of other constitutional protections, such as the self - incrimination clause of the Fifth Amendment . Douglas wrote, "Would we allow the police to search the sacred precincts of marital bedrooms for telltale signs of the use of contraceptives? The very idea is repulsive to the notions of privacy surrounding the marriage relationship ." Justice Arthur Goldberg wrote a concurring opinion in which he used the Ninth Amendment in support of the Supreme Court's ruling . Justice Byron White and Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote concurring opinions in which they argued that privacy is protected by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . </P>

In which case did the supreme court establish the right to privacy