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Cooley v. Board of Port Wardens of Philadelphia CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 2, 1852

Cooley v. Board of Port Wardens of Philadelphia In this case the Court significantly shaped the doctrine of police powers as it affected interstate commerce. Unlike the fractured Court in The License . . .

Dred Scott v. Sandford CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 6, 1857

Dred Scott v. Sandford Dred Scott was the second case in Supreme Court history in which all nine justices delivered an opinion. The case involved a suit for freedom by a slave named Dred Scott based . . .

Ex parte McCardle CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Apr. 12, 1869

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 . . .

Smith v. Turner; Norris v. City of Boston CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Feb. 7, 1849

Smith v. Turner; Norris v. City of Boston Also known as The Passenger Cases . . .

The Prize Cases CQP Key Case, Case Summary
Mar. 10, 1863

The Prize Cases These cases, involving four ships, brought the constitutionality of the Lincoln administration's prosecution of the Civil War before the Supreme Court. On April 19, 1861, immediately . . .

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