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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court_case
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gptkbp:arguedDate
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1927-04-22
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gptkbp:citation
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Buck v. Bell, 276 U.S. 394 (1927)
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gptkbp:concurringOpinionBy
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gptkb:Louis_Brandeis
gptkb:William_Howard_Taft
gptkb:Pierce_Butler
gptkb:Edward_Terry_Sanford
gptkb:George_Sutherland
gptkb:Harlan_F._Stone
gptkb:James_Clark_McReynolds
gptkb:Willis_Van_Devanter
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gptkbp:date
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1927-05-02
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gptkbp:docketNumber
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292
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gptkbp:fullName
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gptkb:Buck_v._Bell
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gptkbp:heldBy
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Virginia's statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, did not violate the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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276 U.S. 394
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gptkbp:judge
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gptkb:Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States
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gptkbp:legalSubject
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gptkb:constitutional_law
eugenics
compulsory sterilization
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:Virginia
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gptkbp:majorityOpinionBy
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gptkb:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Jr.
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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"Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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gptkbp:pages
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394
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gptkbp:petitioner
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gptkb:Carrie_Buck
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gptkbp:predecessor
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state sterilization laws
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gptkbp:relatedLegislation
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gptkb:Virginia_Sterilization_Act_of_1924
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gptkbp:reporter
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gptkb:United_States_Reports
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gptkbp:response
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gptkb:John_Hendren_Bell
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gptkbp:volume
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276
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:J.W._Hampton,_Jr._&_Co._v._United_States
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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