Case Brief Of Roe Vs Wade

Roe v. Wade Key parties: “Jane Roe” (Nora McCorvey) and Henry Wade Citation: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S. Ct. 705, 35 L. Ed. 2d 147, 1973) Decision made on January 22, 1973 at the Supreme Court.

Procedural Background This case was decided in the United States Supreme Court. This case made its way to the Supreme Court when both sides appealed in 1970. The case started off in three judge courts for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The decision in this court ruled in the favor of Roe, stating that a woman's choice was protected by the ninth and fourteenth amendments and that Texas’ abortion laws were void. The plaintiffs appealed to the Supreme Court, but the district court denied an injunction. Both sides of the case filed appeals to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, but before the fifth circuit even made a ruling on the case the Supreme Court agreed to review the case. …show more content…
This case was brought to court when Jane Roe was denied an abortion because it was not to save her life and believed that certain statutes were unconstitutional and that an injunction should be put in place. The people involved in this case are the plaintiff Jane Roe, who is an alias for Nora McCorvey, and the defendant Henry Wade, who is the district attorney for Dallas County. The laws challenged in this case were Articles 1191-1194 and 1196 of the Texas Penal Code as Roe believed they violated her privacy protected by first, fourth, fifth, ninth and fourteenth