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The Slaughterhouse Cases

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1854 Map from The Historic New Orleans Collection

1855 Map from The Historic New Orleans Collection

1878 Map from The Historic New Orleans Collection

C-SPAN special from Historic Supreme Court Decisions

Image of "The Crescent City Live Stock Landing and Slaughter House Company"  from The Historic New Orleans Collection

Newspaper story discussing the slaughterhouse fight from The Times-Picayune

Oyez    Summary, syllabus, and opinion. 

Books in our library

The Slaughterhouse Cases : Regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment, Ronald M. Labbe and Jonathan Lurie, 2003.

Justice of shattered dreams : Samuel Freeman Miller and the Supreme Court during the Civil War era, Michael A. Ross, (2003)

Landmark briefs and arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States : constitutional law, Volume 6, edited by Philip B. Kurland, 1975.