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Which case saw Hugo Black oppose the discovery of a right to privacy in the Constitution?
Griswold v. Connecticut
Marbury v. Madison
Roe v. Wade
Obergefell v. Hodges
Answer
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) was a landmark Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution protected a right to privacy, granting married couples the right to use contraception. Justice Hugo Black dissented, arguing that the Constitution did not include an implied right to privacy.
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