Slaughterhouse Case Decision Of 1873

The Slaughterhouse cases decision of 1873 is a landmark case. A Louisiana ruling gave the Slaughter-House Company special rights to the New Orleans slaughterhouse business. The plaintiffs, a group of butchers sued the state. The case began in 1869, when the Louisiana legislature passed a law creating and granting a monopoly to the Crescent City Livestock Landing & Slaughterhouse Company to slaughter animals in the New Orleans area. A group of local butchers sued Louisiana in state court. State Courts ruled the law was constitutional, the butchers then appealed to the Supreme Court. Mainly violating the privileges and immunities of 14th Amendment, preventing the butchers from earning a living.

The Court also argued that the Louisiana law did

It is significant to note the list of rights that J. Miller says the clause protects, e.g., the right of free access to the seaports, the right to demand the care of the Federal government over his life, liberty and property when on the high seas or within the jurisdiction of a foreign government. Whether the Privileges and Immunities Clause should be read narrowly so as to protect the few rights J. Miller attributes to it is debatable. The Supreme Court will later incorporate several amendments of the United States Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment was not intended to safeguard Plaintiffs against the types of injuries for which they seek relief. The Fourteenth Amendment textually distinguishes between citizens of the United States and citizens of the States. Plaintiffs seek relief as a citizen of a State against the actions of a State. But, the section of the Fourteenth Amendment Plaintiffs rely upon safeguards only rights of citizens of the United States against the actions of the