- This case had been a landmark decision regarding the issues of the use of birth control (in Connecticut specifically).
- The case arose when Griswold, an executive director of Planned Parenthood in Connecticut, was fined arrested for providing illegal contraception.
- The case had been brought to the Supreme Court and it had been decided that the right to martial privacy had been violated.. This set the precedent for further privacy issues and how it had been a fundamental right under the constitution.