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2023-2024 Case problem

This year's hypothetical case features Mindy Vo, a woman who traveled out of state to obtain contraceptives which were deemed illegal to take in her home state by the REAP WHAT YOU SOW Act. ​The first issue of this case addresses whether whether the constitution guarantees a right of privacy that includes a right
to use contraception, including whether Griswold v. Connecticut and Eisenstadt v. Baird
should be revisited, while the second issue analyzes whether Olympus’s REAP WHAT YOU SOW Act violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, including whether Employment
Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith should be revisited.

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Read the case problem below to learn more about this exciting and complicated case. As you write your arguments, remember you only need to address one issue (right to privacy OR free exercise clause).

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Attached Case Problem was updated August 10th, 2023.

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Case problem

Issue one case law

  • Roberson v Rochester Folding Box Co., (New York Court of Appeals) 171 N.Y. 538 (1902)

  • United States v. One Package, 86 F. 2d 737 (2d Cir. 1936)

  • Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965)

  • Eisenstadt v. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972)

  • Washington v. Glucksberg, 521 U.S. 702 (1997)

  • Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 55 (2003)

  • Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015)

  • Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 597 U.S. ___, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022)

  • Deanda v. Becerra, No. 2:20-CV-092-Z, slip op. (N.D. Tex. Dec. 8, 2022)

Issue two case law

  • Reynolds v. United States, 98 U.S. 145 (1878)

  • Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963)

  • Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972)

  • Employment Division v. Smith, 494 U.S. 872 (1990)

  • Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v. City of Hialeah, 508 U.S. 520 (1993)

  • Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, 593 U.S. ___, 141 S. Ct. 1868 (2021)

  • Tandon v. Newsom, 593 U.S. ____, 141 S. Ct. 1294 (2021)

  • Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, 597 U.S. ___, 142 S. Ct. 2407 (2022)

  • Carson v. Makin, 596 U.S. ___, 142 S. Ct. 1987 (2022)

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