Legal Opinion
Baird v. La Follette
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Decided March 18, 1976No. State 224 (1974)PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkie, C. J.
The controversy in this original declaratory judgment action, brought in this court by petitioners William R. Baird and Mary Extrom, individually and on behalf of others similarly situated, concerns the asserted unconstitutionality of sec. 450.11 (2), Stats., which prohibits public exhibition and display of contraception and abortion devices. The full sec. 450.11 provides as follows:
“450.11 Advertising or display of indecent articles, sale in certain cases prohibited. (1) As used in this chapter, the term ‘indecent articles’ means any drug, medicine, mixture, preparation, instrument, article…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Roe v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School DistrictSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Eisenstadt v. BairdSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Cohen v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Karlin v. FoustCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
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- Femala Fleming v. Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, Inc.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 2023
- Elizabeth Karlin, M.D. Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Inc. Gary T. Prohaska, M.D. Dennis D. Christensen, M.D. And Summit Women's Health Organization, on Behalf of Themselves and Their Patients Seeking Abortions v. C. William Foust, in His Official Capacity as District Attorney for Dane County and a Representative of the Class of All District Attorneys in Wisconsin James E. Doyle, in His Official Capacity as Attorney General of Wisconsin James Chambers, Michael Mehr, B. Ann Nevaiser, James Esswein, Rudolfo Molina, W.R. Schwartz, Mikki Patterson, Sidney Johnson, Sandra Makhorn, Pablo Pedraza, Glenn Hoberg, Wanda Roever, Ronald Grossman, and Darold Treffert, in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board Elaine August, Timothy D. Burns, Bonnie M. Creighton, Ruth E. Lindgren, Pamela A. Maxon, Lorraine A. Norem, Roberta P. Overby, McArthur Weddle, and Ann Brewer, in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Wisconsin Board of Nursing Muriel Harper, Virginia Heinemann, Cornelia Hempe, Douglas Knight, and Anita Kropf, in Their Official Capacities as Members of the Social Worker Section of the Wisconsin Examining Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors Joseph Leean, in His Official Capacity as Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services and K.B. Piper, in His Official Capacity as Administrator of the Division of Health of the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services, and E. Michael McCann in His Official Capacity as District Attorney for Milwaukee CountyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1999
- Baird v. LynchDistrict Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1979
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