• Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866), is a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that ruled that the use of military tribunals to try civilians...
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  • century practice in Ex parte Milligan shows, however, such proceedings were not ex parte in any significant sense. The prisoner's ex parte application sought...
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  • Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942), was a case of the United States Supreme Court that during World War II upheld the jurisdiction of a United States military...
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  • Ex parte Garland, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 333 (1866), was an important United States Supreme Court case involving the disbarment of former Confederate officials...
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  • as draft dodgers. The President's proclamation was challenged in Ex parte Milligan, 71 US 2 [1866]. The Supreme Court ruled that Lincoln's imposition...
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    Lambdin Purdy Milligan (March 24, 1812 – December 21, 1899) was an American lawyer and farmer who was the subject of Ex parte Milligan 71 U.S. (4 Wall...
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    Ex parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas. 144 (C.C.D. Md. 1861) (No. 9487), was a controversial U.S. federal court case that arose out of the American Civil War. It...
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    with notes by Frank H. Hurd (Albany, 1876), 127n. Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866). Ex parte Vallandigham, 68 U.S. (1 Wall.) 243 (1864). The...
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    was in force at the time in the District of Columbia. (In 1866, in Ex parte Milligan, the United States Supreme Court banned the use of military tribunals...
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    where it became known as Ex parte Milligan. The U. S. Supreme Court case, Ex parte Milligan or Ex parte Lambdin P. Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866);...
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    of Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866) is available from: Findlaw  Sharp, Allen (Summer 2003). "An Echo of the War: The Aftermath of the Ex Parte Milligan...
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  • College, a college near Greeneville, Tennessee Ex Parte Milligan, a United States Supreme Court case Miss Milligan, a solitaire card game This disambiguation...
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  • revisit this issue in Ex parte Milligan, a similar case where, instead of appealing his sentence by a military tribunal, Milligan would file for a writ...
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    implementation of martial law was examined in 1866, in the court case Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866). Through this case, the Supreme Court established...
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    where he served until 1877. Davis wrote the majority opinion in Ex parte Milligan, a significant judicial decision limiting the military's power to...
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    F. Butler, Ex Parte Milligan, and the Unending Civil War", in Winger, Stewart L., and White, Jonathan W., eds. (2020), Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered:...
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    were decided the following nine justices were members of the Court: Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. (4 Wall.) 2 (1866), is a Supreme Court decision that ruled...
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  • Supreme Court. Viking. ISBN 0-670-87006-4. Political context for Ex Parte Milligan explained on pp. 186–189. Nutting, Helen A. (April 1960). "The Most...
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    States Supreme Court Justice David Davis, in his 1867 opinion for Ex Parte Milligan, wrote "By the protection of the law, human rights are secured; withdraw...
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    Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus. In June, in Ex parte Merryman, Taney, not ruling on behalf of the Supreme Court, issued the...
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  • States Supreme Court Justice David Davis, in his 1867 opinion for Ex parte Milligan, wrote: "By the protection of the law, human rights are secured; withdraw...
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    of habeas corpus. Although successfully challenged in the courts (Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866)), Congress passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act...
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    chief counsel Erin Hawley claiming it was decided over a "technicality". Ex parte Jackson (1878) was the first case brought before the Supreme Court of the...
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    Notable such cases include Ex parte Milligan (1866), Pervear v. Massachusetts (1866), Ex parte McCardle (1867, 1869), Ex parte Yerger (1868), and United...
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    Union Petition for Universal Freedom National Labor Union Ex parte Garland Ex parte Milligan Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866 1866 elections 1867 Tenure of...
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    Union Petition for Universal Freedom National Labor Union Ex parte Garland Ex parte Milligan Slave Kidnapping Act of 1866 1866 elections 1867 Tenure of...
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    trials of his mother and the others, as a US Supreme Court decision, Ex parte Milligan, had declared the trial of civilians before military tribunals to...
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    "my friends." The Hartford Post called him "almost as much of a corpse" as ex-President James Buchanan, who had just died. Additionally, Republicans alleged...
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  • rather than a political question, citing jurisprudence dating back to Ex parte Milligan, where the United States Supreme Court had declared, "The Constitution...
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  • courts were functioning were unconstitutional, with its decision in Ex parte Milligan (1866). Military commissions were also used in the Philippines in...
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