Connecticut (1965), the Court ruled that the Connecticut law stating that no contraceptive may be used against them. ... Several of those cases have had the decision based on the "right to privacy." ... Wade, had a decision that was based at least partially on the "right to privacy." Whether it is written or implied by the courts, one thing is for sure, due to the ninth and fourteenth amendments, there is no way, that a state or national law will ever take away our so called "Right to Privacy." A Right To Privacy: Sure, why not!...

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Ferdico, a former Assistant Attorney General in the State of Maine stated, "The FBI acknowledged it improperly accessed Americans' [sic] telephone records, credit reports, and Internet traffic in 2006, the fourth straight year of privacy abuses . . . . " Safety and privacy pose controversial opinions when law manipulates either, but the Patriot Act definitely crosses the privacy line. ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without d...

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The laws in question had been enacted in 1879. ... Analysis of the Case The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Griswold and found that Connecticut statute was invalid as an unconstitutional invasion of the right of privacy of married persons. The Supreme Court ruled that the "statute forbidding use of contraceptives violates the right of marital privacy which is within the penumbra of specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights." ... This law, however, operates directly on an intimate relation of husband and wife and their physician's role in one aspect of that relation. ... This d...

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In addition, the right to privacy is an important issue. ... However, the federal Constitution does not contain an explicit guarantee of privacy. ... It is also what prevents governments and their agents from invading citizens' privacy. ... Basically, Lawrence and Garner believe the anti-sodomy law is a discriminatory standard since, according to the law, certain kinds of sex acts were immoral for homosexuals but not for heterosexuals. ... Thus, since anti-sodomy laws like Texas" single out homosexuals, they are denied equal treatment under the law. ...

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The court held that a woman's right to an abortion fell within the right to privacy protected by the Fourteenth Amendment... The right to privacy was not meant to be the main idea of the case, but was brought up with the abortion concept. ... This case had much impact on governmental law. This case demonstrated to show that every person has the right to privacy. ... It just said people have the right to privacy and if some woman wants an abortion see can have one. ...

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The majority opinion said that the right of privacy is an important value that has to be upheld. ... Majority opinion said that Federal and State laws should have the same approach in similar causes. They said that even though this ruling might cause some criminals to go free because of a careless police officers, the people's right to privacy is more important and a government must obey its own laws. ... They also did not want to change a law that they passed previously. ... This is a landmark case because it upheld the people's right to their privacy. ...

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The first act to come out regarding the Internet and Freedom of Speech was PL 99-508 the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act of 1986 . ... Basically takes the existing laws and updates them to include computers. ... This law has been called the Virginia Net Decency Act. It is similar to the CDA law that was proposed in Congress. ... Citing as precedent the Supreme Court case that prohibited an Arizona law that restricted train lengths to 14 cars, the ACLU got the law overturned. ...

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Rochin violated those laws and posed a threat to California citizens. When Rochin chose to violate the laws, his rights were diluted and restricted. ... Defendant's Legal Argument: Rochin was in the privacy of his own home. ... The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the deprivation of a person's liberty without due process of the law. ... Liberty to Rochin meant the right to be in the privacy of his own home without forced entry by the officers. ...

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Others may be recognized as the law develops. ... Federal and state laws govern the establishment and administration of prisons as well as the rights of the inmates (Lund, Lynn J., Deland, Gary, Gallaher, Sharon, and Bowker, Gary.) ... Inmates do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their prison cells and are not protected from "shakedowns," or searches of their cells to look for weapons, drugs, or other contraband. ... The US Constitution gives female inmates privacy rights that prevent male officers from "pat-down searching" them. ... Under protection of the Constitution, male in...

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Back in the 1970s the U.S. made it certain that not allowing a woman to a legal abortion violates a woman's constitutional guaranteed right to privacy. ... A Nebraska federal judge questioned the law's constitutionality and even issued a limited temporary restraining order against it. ...

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The Fourteenth Amendment states, "The Statecannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any person within itsjurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." ... JosephDavis, brought in from Seminole County, "found that Florida's strict privacy law and the equal protection clause in theU.S. ... "Renewed effortsat the Legislative level to overturn "Measure 16" may now be anticipated to prevent the law from being used"(http://www.rights.org/deathnet/open. ... The Fourteenth Amendment gives one the right to life, liberty, or property, witho...

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The court sided with Roe and ruled that constitutional privacy "is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy" (Roe v. ... Planned Parenthood heavily protested these statutes and brought a suit against the governor before any of the statutes were made into laws. ... The court concluded that the government cannot pass laws that have "the purpose or effect of placing a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion" (Planned Parenthood v. ... The statutes were found unconstitutional and Casey's statutes were never made laws...

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