Bradwell v. Illinois Myra Bradwell studied law with her husband, James B. Bradwell, who was an attorney and the publisher of the Chicago Legal News, one of the most important legal publications in th . . .
Ex parte McCardle In 1867 military authorities in Vicksburg, Mississippi, arrested newspaper editor William McCardle and charged him with libel and inciting violence against the United States. McCard . . .
Hepburn v. Griswold Also known as the First Legal Tender Case . . .
The Slaughterhouse Cases This complex case gave the Court its first major opportunity to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment, which had been ratified in 1868. The Court consolidated three cases brough . . .