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Olmstead V. United States: A Case Study

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The right to privacy was not explicitly stated in the Constitution. Up until 1850, the courts did not support the right to privacy. During Prohibition, information was routinely hacked into using telephones and used as a legal bias for prosecution. In Olmstead v. United States in 1928, the Supreme Court supported the invasion of privacy. In the 1960’s, the highest courts began to alter this support. In 1965, in Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court reversed a Connecticut law that prohibited the use of contraceptives because it violated the right to privacy. Justice William O. Douglas worked the right to privacy into the Bill of Rights as an implied right using the First (right of free association), Third (prohibition against quartering

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