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 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 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 Also known as The Passenger Cases . . .
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 . . .