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  2. Buck v. Bell - Wikipedia

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    Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., in which the Court ruled that a state statute permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, "for the protection and health of the state" did not violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the ...

  3. Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded

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    Carrie Buck was sterilized on October 19, 1927, and this began a long run of sterilizations at the colony. [4] [5] In the six years following the decision in Buck v. Bell, the state of Virginia performed 1,333 sterilizations. [8] The last reported sterilization at the colony occurred in 1956. [5]

  4. Pierce Butler (judge) - Wikipedia

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    In the 1927 decision for Buck v. Bell , Butler was the only Justice who dissented from the 8–1 ruling [ 9 ] and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. 's opinion holding that the forced sterilization of an allegedly "feeble-minded" woman in Virginia was constitutional. [ 10 ]

  5. Carrie Buck - Wikipedia

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    Carrie Elizabeth Buck (July 3, 1906 – January 28, 1983) [1] was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, after having been ordered to undergo compulsory sterilization for purportedly being "feeble-minded" by her foster parents after their nephew raped and impregnated her.

  6. Buck v. Davis - Wikipedia

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    Buck v. Davis, 580 U.S. ___ (2017), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of the defendant Duane Buck after the defendant's attorney introduced evidence that suggested the defendant would be more likely to commit violent acts in the future because he was black.

  7. Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924 - Wikipedia

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    The act was based on model legislation written by Harry H. Laughlin and challenged by a case that led to the United States Supreme Court decision of Buck v. Bell. [3] The Supreme Court upheld the law as constitutional and it became a model law for sterilization laws in other states.

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  9. Duane Buck - Wikipedia

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    Duane Edward Buck (born July 5, 1963) is an African-American man formerly on death row following his conviction for the shooting deaths of his ex-girlfriend Debra Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler. He also wounded his sister, who was also at Gardner's home. His sentence was commuted from death to life in prison after the Supreme Court case ...