Connecticut police arrest Estelle Griswold and Dr. Buxton nine days after they open their clinic, charging them under the state's 1879 contraception ban

Connecticut police arrested Estelle Griswold and Dr. Charles Lee Buxton on November 10, 1961, nine days after they opened their New Haven birth control clinic. A justice of the peace convicted both and fined each $100 for violating Connecticut General Statutes § 53-32. Griswold and Buxton appealed, providing the enforcement record their attorneys needed to challenge the constitutionality of Connecticut's ban on contraception. Yale Law professor Thomas Emerson took the case to the Supreme Court, arguing that the statute unconstitutionally invaded the marital relationship.