Landmark law cases & American society The slaughterhouse cases : regulation, Reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0700614095
ISBN 13
9780700614097
DDC
344.7304
Category
American Law
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Publication Year
2005
Publisher
Pages
xvii, 205 pages
Subject
American Slaughterhouses
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Abstract
"The rough-and-tumble world of nineteenth-century New Orleans was a sanitation nightmare, with the city's slaughterhouses dumping animal remains into local backwaters. When Louisiana authorized a monopoly slaughterhouse to bring about sanitation reform, hundreds of independent butchers sued, framing their cases as an infringement of rights protected by the recently passed Fourteenth Amendment. The surviving cases that reached the U.S. Supreme Court pitted the butchers' right to labor against the state's "police power" to regulate public health. The result in 1873 was a controversial 5-4 decision that for the first time addressed the meaning and import of the Fourteenth Amendment. While ruling that Louisiana had legitimately exercised its powers, the Court's majority went much further to declare that the amendment - and its "due process" and "equal protection" clauses - applied exclusively to the plight of former slaves and, thus, were unavailable to any other American."--Jacket.
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Content:
Beef from the pork barrel? : introduction and overview -- Private gain, public health, and public policy in antebellum New Orleans -- Law, politics, and slaughterhouse reform -- A centralized abattoir for New Orleans -- The order of battle in the lower courts -- Appeal, repeal, and a compromise -- The Chase court -- The arguments -- Decision and dissents -- The legacy.
Beef from the pork barrel? : introduction and overview -- Private gain, public health, and public policy in antebellum New Orleans -- Law, politics, and slaughterhouse reform -- A centralized abattoir for New Orleans -- The order of battle in the lower courts -- Appeal, repeal, and a compromise -- The Chase court -- The arguments -- Decision and dissents -- The legacy.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.
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