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Legal Citation: 74 U.S. 506 (1869)

Petitioner
United States

Respondent
William H. McCardle

Petitioner's Claim
That McCardle had incited insurrection and impeded post-Civil War Reconstruction.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
Matthew H. Carpenter, Lyman Trumbull

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
Jeremiah S. Black, David Dudley Field, Charles O'Conor, W. L. Sharkey, Robert J. Walker

Justices for the Court
Salmon Portland Chase (writing for the Court), Nathan Clifford, David Davis, Robert Cooper Grier, Stephen Johnson Field, Samuel Freeman Miller, Samuel Nelson, Noah Haynes Swayne

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

Date of Decision
12 April 1869

Decision
That the Supreme Court was without jurisdiction to render a decision, because Congress had repealed...