It was decided the day before Bradwell v. Illinois, and its holding was fol
It was decided the day before Bradwell v. Illinois, and its holding was followed six years later by Strauder v. West Virginia. One dissent begins with a quote from Adam Smith and goes on to say that "the people of this country brought with them to its shores the rights of Englishmen." Of the three dissents, that by Justice Swayne is the least cited, and it was decided the year before Minor v. Happersett. Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Miller made the now-ridiculous claim that he doubted "very much whether any action of a State not involving discrimination against the negroes…would ever be held to come within the equal protection clause." Dissented in by Justices Field and Bradley, FTP, name this decision which upheld a monopoly granted to the Crescent City Company in New Orleans, an 1873 set of cases named for a certain bloody business.
It was decided the day before Bradwell v. Illinois, and its holding was followed six years later by Strauder v. West Virginia.
The {Slaughter-House} Case(s)