William O. Douglas was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1975. Born in Maine, Minnesota, in 1898, he studied at Whitman College and Columbia Law School, taught at Columbia and Yale, and served on the Securities and Exchange Commission, including as its chairman from 1937 to 1939. President Franklin Roosevelt nominated him to replace Louis Brandeis. He assumed senior status in 1975 and died in Bethesda, Maryland, in 1980.
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Source Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
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1. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)
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Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
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Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.
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