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.

Dred Scott first went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. Ten years later, after a decade of appeals and court reversals, his case was finally brought before the United States Supreme Court.

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 ... with Scott losing his case in the Missouri state courts before he ...

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Burwell by treating the adverse ruling as only affecting the individual parties in the case, while continuing ... a response to the Dred Scott decision that appeared in Abraham Lincoln’s first ...