Prigg v. Pennsylvania - Significance, Owing Service, Federal Supremacy, Impact, Further Readings
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Appellant
Edward Prigg
Appellee
State of Pennsylvania
Appellant's Claim
That laws passed by the U.S. Congress regulating interstate retrieval of fugitive slaves take precedence over state laws on the same subject.
Chief Lawyers for Appellant
Meredith, Nelson
Chief Lawyer for Appellee
Johnson, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
Justices for the Court
Henry Baldwin, John Catron, Peter Vivian Daniel, John McKinley, Joseph Story (writing for the Court), Roger Brooke Taney, Smith Thompson, James Moore Wayne
Justices Dissenting
John McLean
Place
Washington, D.C.
Date of Decision
1 March 1842
Decision
Upheld Prigg's claim and overturned two lower courts' decisions convicting Prigg of kidnapping under an 1826 Pennsylvania law.
Related Cases
- The Antelope, 10 Wheat. 66 (1825).
- Jones v. Van Zandt, 5 How. 215 (1848).
- Ableman v. Booth, 62 U.S. 506 (1859).
- Hines v. Davidowitz, 312 U.S. 52 (1941).
- United States v. Lopez, 514 U.S. 549 (1995).
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