Taney Court

The Charles River Bridge Company claimed its charter implicitly barred Massachusetts from authorizing a competing toll bridge, arg...

Dred Scott, enslaved in Missouri, sued for freedom after residing in free states and territories with his owner. Chief Justice Tan...

Sherman Booth, a Wisconsin abolitionist jailed for helping a fugitive slave escape, was freed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, whic...

Union ships seized vessels trading with the Confederacy under Lincoln's 1861 blockade proclamation, issued without a congressional...

Edward Prigg, a Maryland slave catcher, seized Margaret Morgan and her children in Pennsylvania and carried them back to Maryland ...