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Charged with "conspiracy to violate slavery laws" after offering to employ illegal immigrants and then keeping them as prisoners after Kimes was unwilling or unable to pay them. Kimes was sentenced to five years in prison for violating federal anti-slavery laws 2021: Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe: Supreme Court of the United States
Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often based on descent from a free maternal ancestor, or time held as a resident in a free state or territory.
Bushrod Washington placed a runaway slave ad in the Alexandria Gazette of April 4, 1821, seeking the return of Fielding, reward $10. This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court Justices who owned slaves at any point in their lives.
Residents of a small county in North Carolina filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to have a Confederate-era monument to “faithful slaves” removed from outside the county courthouse.. The monument ...
Pages in category "United States slavery case law" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Current and former inmates announced a lawsuit Tuesday challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of “modern day slavery," saying prisoners are forced to work for little pay — and ...
The slavery petition was as bad as wearing clothing with the Confederate flag and should be punished the same way, the district says in court papers.
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) - ruled that the First Amendment protections on freedom of speech restricted defamation lawsuits to cases of "actual malice." Originated with a lawsuit against The New York Times for a full-page ad criticizing the Montgomery Police Department for mistreating civil rights protesters. Harper v.