The Slaughter House Cases of 1873

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The Slaughterhouse Cases, resolved by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1873, ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," are protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states were restricted to those in the Constitution and did not have many rights given by the individual states. Slaughterhouse was the Court's first explanation of the Fourteenth Amendment, perhaps the most important addition to the Constitution after the Bill of Rights. The case began in 1869, when the Louisiana legislature passed a law forming a monopoly to the Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughterhouse Company to slaughter animals in the New Orleans district. In exchange for private operating rights in New Orleans, the Crescent City Company was to fulfill state supplies governing among other things, quality of facilities and products, and price of livestock. Butchers claimed that the state illegally deprived them of the "privilege" of operating slaughterhouse companies and therefore prohibited them from earning a living. After the state courts decided that the law was constitutional,...

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