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Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862 during the American Civil War.The Supreme Court's decision declared the blockade of the Southern ports ordered by President Abraham Lincoln constitutional.
The United States in 1780 established the Federal Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture to hear appeals of prize cases from state prize courts; this court was ended in 1787, after conclusion of the war. Under current U.S. law, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. §§ 7651–7681, the district courts have exclusive jurisdiction in prize cases. Due to changes ...
Blanche towing Pique, a French frigate captured as a British prize in 1795. In admiralty law prizes (from the Old French prise, "taken, seized" [1]) are equipment, vehicles, vessels, and cargo captured during armed conflict. The most common use of prize in this sense is the capture of an enemy ship and its cargo as a prize of war.
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Tanya Acker was born March 13, 1970, in Los Angeles. She graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 and Yale Law School with her Juris Doctor in 1995. . Following law school, she served as a law clerk for Dorothy Wright Nelson and completed a fellowship at the Office of the Solicitor Gen
In 1874, the U.S. government created the United States Reports, and retroactively numbered older privately-published case reports as part of the new series. As a result, cases appearing in volumes 1–90 of U.S. Reports have dual citation forms; one for the volume number of U.S. Reports, and one for the volume number of the reports named for the relevant reporter of decisions (these are called ...
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Case name Citation Summary United States v. Segui: 35 U.S. 306 (1836) upholding the validity of a Spanish land grant in Florida: Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge: 36 U.S. 420 (1837) Contract Clause of the Constitution: The Amistad: 40 U.S. 518 (1841) slave trade and slave ownership Swift v. Tyson: 41 U.S. 1 (1842)