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EISENSTADT v. BAIRD, 405 U.S. 438

EISENSTADT, SHERIFF v. BAIRD, 405 U.S. 438

405 U.S. 438 | 1972-03-22

U.S. Supreme Court

EISENSTADT v. BAIRD, 405 U.S. 438 (1972)

405 U.S. 438

EISENSTADT, SHERIFF v. BAIRD 

APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT 

No. 70-17. 

Argued November 17-18, 1971 
Decided March 22, 1972 

Appellee attacks his conviction of violating Massachusetts law for giving a woman a contraceptive foam at the close of his lecture to students on contraception. That law makes it a felony for anyone to give away a drug, medicine, instrument, or article for the prevention of conception except in the case of (1) a registered physician administering or prescribing it for a married person or...