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Cooley v. Board of Wardens, 53 U.S. (12 How.) 299 (1852), was a US Supreme Court case that held that a Pennsylvania law requiring all ships entering or leaving Philadelphia to hire a local pilot did not violate the Commerce Clause of the US Constitution. Those who did not comply with the law had been required to pay a fee.
Hotchkiss v. Greenwood: 52 U.S. 248 (1851) Early standard for non-obviousness in United States patent law: Strader v. Graham: 51 U.S. 82 (1851) slavery and the application of state laws thereof Cooley v. Board of Wardens: 53 U.S. 299 (1852) pilotage laws under the Commerce Clause: Dred Scott v. Sandford: 60 U.S. 393 (1857) slavery, the ...
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 ...
The approach began in the 1851 case of Cooley v. Board of Wardens, in which Justice Benjamin R. Curtis wrote for the Court: "Either absolutely to affirm, or deny that the nature of this [commerce] power requires exclusive legislation by Congress, is to lose sight of the nature of the subjects of this power, and to assert concerning all of them ...
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852): In a decision delivered by Justice Curtis, the court upheld a Pennsylvania law requiring vessels leaving Philadelphia to use a local pilot or pay a fine. In the decision, the court set an important precedent regarding the Commerce Clause , charting a middle course between federal and state power.
His opinion in Cooley v. Board of Wardens 53 U.S. 299 (1852) [15] held that the Commerce Power as provided in the Commerce Clause, U.S. Const., Art. I, § 8, cl. 3, extends to laws related to pilotage. State laws related to commerce powers can be valid so long as Congress is silent on the matter.
Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 – October 13, 1890) was an American lawyer and physician who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1862 until his death in 1890 and who authored landmark opinions in United States v.
Pages in category "1852 in United States case law" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... Cooley v. Board of Wardens; L. Le Roy v. Tatham;