This is the U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld Virginia's law requiring the sterilization of those deemed "socially inadequate" and living on government support in 1927.

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Buck v. Bell is the case that upheld Virginia's law allowing for the sterilization of those deemed "socially inadequate" and living on government support. The court's decision was 8-1 in favor of the law, with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously writing "Three generations of imbeciles are enough." This decision paved the way for similar laws in other states and allowed for the forced sterilization of tens of thousands of people in the United States.

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