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    The Taney Court (the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, 1836–1864) heard thirty criminal law cases, approximately one...
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    The Taney Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1836 to 1864, when Roger Taney served as the fifth Chief Justice of the United States...
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    slavery in the U.S. territories. Prior to joining the U.S. Supreme Court, Taney served as the U.S. attorney general and U.S. secretary of the treasury...
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    The Marshall Court (1801–1835) heard forty-one criminal law cases, slightly more than one per year. Among such cases are United States v. Simms (1803)...
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    The Taney Court (1836–1864) made several important rulings, such as Sheldon v. Sill, which held that while Congress may not limit the subjects the Supreme...
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    ranch in Taney County at the time of the Bald Knob uprising, and was the man who gave that organization its name. The Bald Knobbers, who for the most part...
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    criminal cases. The Taney Court had not heard any such cases. But, in Blyew v. United States (1871), the Court heard a writ of error from a criminal action removed...
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    status of aboriginal title in the United States, building on the opinions of aboriginal title in the Marshall Court. The Taney Court heard Fellows v. Blacksmith...
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    point Roger Taney took office. The Marshall Court played a major role in increasing the power of the judicial branch, as well as the power of the national...
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  • list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court decided during the Taney Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney from March 28, 1836 through...
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  • Roger Taney, the Court ruled that people of African descent "are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution...
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  • of state laws. Hence states may file briefs as amici curiae when their laws or interests are likely to be affected, as in the Supreme Court case McDonald...
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    of the Supreme Court's decisions—particularly those relating to slavery—met with controversy and contention. Most controversial was the Taney Court's decision...
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  • Ableman v. Booth (category Criminal cases in the Taney Court)
    Roger Taney, thereby forcing the U.S. Supreme Court to issue a decision without the record. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court, in a unanimous...
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    B. Taney survived his wife, Anne, by twenty years. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. resolutely continued working on the court for several years after the death...
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    Ex parte Merryman (category 1861 in United States case law)
    Roger B. Taney ruled in this case that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay exclusively with Congress. Taney's ruling was not a Supreme Court decision...
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  • process of law. The U.S. Supreme Court interprets these clauses to guarantee a variety of protections: procedural due process (in civil and criminal proceedings);...
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    and criminal. Such courts may issue and determine original remedial writs and shall sit at times and places within the circuit as determined by the circuit...
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    John Marshall (category United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law)
    Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-0882952413. Paxton, W. M. (William McClung) (March 15, 1885). "The Marshall...
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    Benjamin Robbins Curtis (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    by time in office Origins of the American Civil War United States Supreme Court cases during the Taney Court Forret, Jeff (2012). Slavery in the United...
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  • from the circuit Court of the United States for the district of New Jersey, upon a certificate of division in opinion between the judges thereof. The dispute...
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  • Supreme Court case that held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or leaving Philadelphia to hire a local pilot did not violate the Commerce...
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  • challenged in court and overturned by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Maryland (led by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Roger B. Taney) in Ex parte...
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    John Catron (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1837 to 1865, during the Taney Court. Little is known of Catron's early...
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    frequency of criminal cases. In just fourteen years, the Court heard 106 criminal cases, almost as many cases as the Supreme Court had heard in the period from...
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  • Ex parte Vallandigham (category Criminal cases in the Taney Court)
    United States Supreme Court case, involving a former congressman Clement Vallandigham of Ohio, who had violated an Army order against the public expression...
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  • Le Roy v. Tatham (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Taney Court)
    a decision of the United States Supreme Court holding that "a newly discovered principle" cannot be patented, and no one can claim in it an exclusive...
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  • Luther v. Borden (category United States Supreme Court cases of the Taney Court)
    was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established the political question doctrine in controversies arising under the Guarantee Clause...
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    Samuel Nelson (category Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States)
    for reasons different from Chief Justice Taney's. Nelson was born in Hebron, New York on November 10, 1792, the son of Scotch-Irish immigrants John Rodgers...
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  • (1838)". Justia Law. Retrieved April 29, 2024. https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/37/657.html Ullman, Edward (1939). "The Eastern Rhode...
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