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Buck v. Bell: Media

Supreme Court case

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Mother and daughter
Carrie Buck, left, sitting with her mother Emma Buck while institutionalized at...
Arthur Estabrook Papers, M.E. Grenander Department of Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany Libraries
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Holmes wrote the opinion in the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell,...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-npcc-26412)