Poe v. Ullman
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Poe v. Ullman, 367 U.S. 497 (1961) was a United States Supreme Court case that held that plaintiffs could not challenge a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, and banned doctors from advising their use, because the law had never been enforced. Therefore, any challenge to the law was deemed unripe, because there was no actual threat of injury to anyone who disobeyed the law.