Great American Court Cases | Ex parte Milligan

Legal Citation: 71 U.S. 2 (1866)

Petitioner
Lambdin P. Milligan

Respondent
United States

Petitioner's Claim
A military commission was not a competent tribunal for the trial of the petitioner, a military commission may not try nor convict him, and the petitioner should be released.

Chief Lawyers for Petitioner
J. S. Black, J. E. McDonald, J. A. Garfield, David Dudley Field, A. L. Roache, John R. Coffuth

Chief Lawyers for Respondent
James Speed; Henry Stanbery, U.S. Attorney General; Benjamin F. Butler

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

Justices Dissenting
None

Place
Washington, D.C.

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