Dred Scott v. Sandford. Ironically, perhaps, neither litigant—Scott nor Sanford (the name was misspelled by a court clerk)—were present in the courtroom that morning. As for Scott, he was …

Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court Case Summary ... Facts of the Case forbidden by the Missouri Compromise of 1820. After returning to Missouri, Scott filed suit in Missouri court for …

Publication Number: M-2013 le No. 3230, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (19 Howard 393), Decided March 6, Date Published: 1995

Chief Justice Roger Taney and Justice Benjamin Curtis Dred Scot.

In a decision that later was nullified by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Supreme Court held that former slaves did not have standing in federal courts because they lacked U.S. …

View the case on the Constitution Center’s website here. Dred Scott, an enslaved man who was taken by his enslaver into a free state and also to free federal territory, sued for freedom for …

John F. A. Sandford, Defendant.