• Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1852), was a US Supreme Court case that held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or...
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  • Pictures Cooley v. Board of Wardens (53 U.S. 299) (1853), a United States Supreme Court case regarding shipping Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), a...
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    Benjamin Robbins Curtis (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    (a form of apprenticeship in a practicing firm) or attended a law school without receiving a degree. His opinion in Cooley v. Board of Wardens 53 U.S....
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  • Dormant Commerce Clause (category Legal history of the United States)
    case of Cooley v. Board of Wardens, in which Justice Benjamin R. Curtis wrote for the Court: "Either absolutely to affirm, or deny that the nature of this...
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  • William H. Rehnquist wrote in a memo on Brown v. Board of Education: "Scott v. Sandford was the result of Taney's effort to protect slaveholders from legislative...
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  • transportation of a good, which prevents imposts or duties on a person. The tax was not a prohibited impost, and precedent from Cooley v. Board of Wardens was cited...
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    Thomas McIntyre Cooley (January 6, 1824 – September 12, 1898) was an American judge. He was the 25th Justice and a Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme...
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  • This was a standard enacted in Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852). The Wabash decision led to the creation in 1887 of the first modern regulatory agency...
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    Taney Court (category Supreme Court of the United States)
    determine whether a state's government qualifies as "republican." Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852): In a decision delivered by Justice Curtis, the court upheld...
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    How.) were decided the Court comprised these nine members: In Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1852), the Supreme Court held that a Pennsylvania...
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    States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841), was a United States Supreme Court case resulting from the rebellion of Africans on board the Spanish...
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    Levi Woodbury (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    Woodbury's reasoning in Cooley v. Board of Wardens that it would decide on a case-by-case basis depending on whether the subject of regulation was local...
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    Roger B. Taney (category Members of the Maryland House of Delegates)
    justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864. Taney infamously delivered the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford...
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  • Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to apply portions of the Bill of Rights to the states. Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. 299 (1852)...
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    Samuel Freeman Miller (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890 and who authored landmark opinions in United States v. Kagama and The Slaughterhouse...
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  • partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court decided during the Taney Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney...
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    Jeremiah S. Black (category Reporters of Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1851–1857) and as the Court's Chief Justice (1851–1854). He also served in the Cabinet of President James Buchanan...
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    Stephen Johnson Field (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    important in the dissent of Justice Bradley as well as the dissent of Justice Swayne). In both Munn v. Illinois and Mugler v. Kansas, Justice Field based...
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    David Davis (Supreme Court justice) (category Members of the Illinois House of Representatives)
    effectively becoming one of the bulwarks of held notions of American civil liberty. In Hepburn v. Griswold (1870) he held with the minority of the Supreme Court...
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    in Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842) which upheld the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. Daniel wrote: Concurring entirely, as I do, with the majority of the court...
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    include Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), United States v. Rogers (1846), Ableman v. Booth (1858), Ex parte Vallandigham (1861), and United States v. Jackalow...
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  • ISSN 0016-7428. Text of Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, 37 U.S. (12 Pet.) 657 (1838) is available from: Findlaw  Justia  Library of Congress  OpenJurist ...
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  • article: Swift v. Tyson Swift v. Tyson, 41 U.S. (16 Pet.) 1 (1842), was a case brought in diversity in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York...
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    Noah Haynes Swayne (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    of the Supreme Court. In United States v. Rhodes, 1 Abb. U.S. 28 (C.C.D.Ky. 1867), Justice Swayne, riding on circuit, upheld the constitutionality of...
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  • State of Alabama v. State of Georgia, 64 U.S. (23 How.) 505 (1860), is a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the...
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    Robert Cooper Grier (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    important cases of the 19th century. As one of two Northern members of the majority in the Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) decision, Grier concurred that...
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    John Archibald Campbell (category Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives)
    grant case, Mayor of Mobile v. Eslava (1849), Campbell revealed his states-rightist attitude and first articulated his doctrine of "original sovereignty"...
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    Nathan Clifford (category Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine)
    Benjamin R. Curtis. Clifford's nomination came in the immediate wake of the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision and was hotly contested. As a longtime partisan...
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  • O'Reilly v. Morse, 56 U.S. (15 How.) 62 (1853), also known as The Telegraph Patent Case, is an 1854 decision of the United States Supreme Court that has...
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  • Luther v. Borden, 48 U.S. (7 How.) 1 (1849), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the political question doctrine in...
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