The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave ...

Researchers found nearly 300 similar suits between 1814 and 1860, and more than a third of these people achieved their ...

A new op-ed from a pair of conservative legal experts only raises unflattering questions about the direction of the right's juridical scholarship.

They had a case, a case before a single vote ... No, I'm not comparing the two Supreme Courts. What I'm saying is, the Dred Scott decision was the icing on the cake. It was the fuel on the fire.

The 1857 Dred Scott v Sandford decision came after Dred ... as well as precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court cases ... have found that a ‘Natural Born Citizen’ is defined as a person born ...

The order, if approved, would deny citizenship to those born after Feb. 19 whose parents are in the country illegally.

Sauer pointed to two past court rulings: the 1944 case that upheld the legality of ... the Korematsu decision, you know, the Dred Scott decision.” On Korematsu, Durbin asked Sauer to “describe ...

The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and ... that the Circuit Court had no jurisdiction of the case, and that the judgment on the plea in abatement is erroneous.