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∙ 14y agoDred Scott v. Sanford, 60 US 393 (1857)
Dred Scott lived in St. Louis, Missouri.
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∙ 14y agoU.S Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court is the highest court in the US. Each state has its own Supreme Court, but the US Supreme Court is the end of the line.
Any court, even a lower state or federal District Court, can find a federal law that is relevant to a case or controversy before that count unconstitutional, if the court has a rational basis for making such determination. These cases often end up being petitioned to the US Supreme Court for a definitive answer.
The term "supreme court" is used in both the state and federal judicial systems. Every state has a state supreme court, or a differently named equivalent, which is the highest appellate court within the state system. State supreme courts are typically located in the state capital. In at least one state, New York, "supreme court" refers not to the highest court of appeals, but to the trial court in which cases are initially heard.Every state is also a part of the national federal court system and its federal regulations, starting from district, appellate, and finally, the U.S. Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court is the highest appellate court in both federal and state systems for preserved questions of federal and constitutional law. The US Supreme Court has no jurisdiction over individual state laws or state constitutional issues.Generally, when people refer to "The Supreme Court," they mean the Supreme Court of the United States, or (colloquially) SCOTUS or US Supreme Court. When referring to a state supreme court, a person usually identifies the state first, as in Ohio Supreme Court, Alabama Supreme Court, etc.
Currently, the California State Supreme Court is considered most influential.
Dred Scott's case made it to the Supreme Court because he sued for his freedom after living in a free state and a free territory with his owner. The case went through several lower courts before ultimately being appealed to the Supreme Court.
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The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott's owner did not lose her property rights by taking him to a free State (Illinois); this gave persons who were opposed to slavery the not-unreasonable impression that the Supreme Court would, sooner or later, rule that no State could ban slavery.
One of the findings of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision was that slaves were considered property, not citizens.
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no blacks, not even free blacks, could become U.S. citizens.
In 1857 the US Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott's application for freedom was rejected. Slavery was declared lawful in every state, because of the court's interpretation of the word 'property' in the Constitution, to include human property.
This would be the state supreme court for a particular US state.supreme court
Yes STATE SUPREME COURT is the highest court at the State level.It is the is the ultimate judicial tribunal for a particular case.Different STATES have there own supreme courts.The supreme court of USA is the highest court.It can over rules the decisions made by State supreme courts.
The US Supreme Court is the highest court in the US. Each state has its own Supreme Court, but the US Supreme Court is the end of the line.
The famous US Supreme Court case where the slave sued for his freedom was in the Dred Scott case. He was with his master traveling when they traveled into a free state; because they were in a free state, Scott believed he was a free man and sued for his freedom. The court however disagreed, saying that Scott was his masters property and he was not free, even in a free state. This gave people in the south an opportunity to go find their runaway slaves because they were by law, still their property.
According to the California Supreme Court Historical Society, the California Supreme Court has been the "most cited and followed" state supreme court since 1940.