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| Homer Adolph Plessy was | the petitioner in the Plessy v. Ferguson |
| John Ferguson was | the respondent/state Judge |
| Plessy v. Ferguson took place in | in the Louisiana Sureme Court in April 13, 1886 |
| Louisiana enacted the Separate Car Act | which required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. |
| In 1982, Homer Plessy, who was seven-eighths Caucasian | agreed to participate in a test challenge the Act. |
| Plessy was solicited by the Commite de Citoyens | a group of New Orleans residents who sought to repeal the Act. |
| The railroad cooperated because it thought the Act | imposed unnecessary costs via the purchase of additional railroad cars. |
| At the trail, Plessy's lawyers argued that the Separate Car Act violated | the 13th and 14th Amendments. |
| Question: ?????????????? | Does the Separate Car Act violate the 14th Amendment. |
| Conclusion:Equal but separate accommodations for whites & blacks | imposed by Louisiana do not violate Equal Protection Clause |
| In the opinion authored by justice Henry Billing Brown | the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation. |
| Dred Scott was | the petitioner |
| John F. A Sanford was | the respondent |
| Judge Taney was the | the supreme court judge that decided the Dred Scott v. Sandford |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford was decided | in Mar 6, 1857 |
| Dred Scott was a | Slave in Missouri |
| From 1833-1843 Dred Scott resided in | Illinois (a free state) and in the Louisiana Territory |
| Slavery was forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 | in the following territories, Louisiana and in Illinois. |
| After returning to Missouri Scott filed suit in Missouri court | for his freedom, claiming that his residence in free territory made him a free man. |
| After losing | Scott brought a new suit in federal court. |
| Scott's master maintained that no negro or descendant | of slaves could be a citizens in the sense of Article III |
| Constitution Question in Dred Scott | Was Dred Scott free of slave? |
| Dred Scott conclusion: Held portions of Missouri Compromise | unconstitutional in violation of the 5th Amendment treating Scott as property, not a person. |
| Taney | dismissed the case on procedural grounds. |
| The court held that a negro, whose ancestors were imported into (the U.S) | and sold as slaves, whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen |
| African Americans cannot sue because | the court lacked jurisdiction |
| Judge Taney held that the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was unconstitutional | and foreclose Congress from freeing slave |
| Taney ruled that slaves were property under the 5th amendment | and that any law that would deprive a slave owner of that property was unconstitutional. |
