Legal Opinion
Buck v. Bell
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 12, 1925PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWest, J.
Carrie Buck, by R. G. Shelton, her guardian and next friend, complains of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Amherst county by which Dr. J. H. Bell, Superintendent of the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded, was ordered to perform on her the operation of salpingectomy, for the purpose of rendering her sexually sterile. See part of the Virginia sterilization act copied in the margin.*
After requiring the service of a copy of the petition and notice of the time and place when the special board of directors will hear and act on the petition *313upon the inmate and her guardian, and, if the…
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- Jacobson v. MassachusettsSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
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3Cited by21 opinions
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