The following year the Missouri Supreme Court decided that case ... The decision of the court was read in March of 1857. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney -- a staunch supporter of slavery -- wrote ...

In March of 1857, the United States Supreme ... Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

Editor’s Note: A professor of law at Yale University, Fred Rodell’s latest book, is Nine Men, a political history of the U.S. Supreme Court ... federal district court in Missouri while ...

with Scott losing his case in the Missouri state courts before he filed a new federal lawsuit which went all the way to the ...