In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford ; Chief Justice Roger B. Taney opined that blacks were not citizens, and derived no rights from the Constitution.

John Merryman, a leader in the secessionist group in Maryland, petitioned Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus, saying holding Merryman without a hearing was unlawful.

In Cooley v. Board of Wardens ( 1852 ) the Court headed by Roger B. Taney had allowed the states, in the absence of federal legislation, to control those aspects of commerce that did not require a single national policy.

* 1777 – Roger Brooke Taney, 5th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court ( d. 1864 )

In 1853 the case of the patent came before the U. S. Supreme Court where, after very lengthy investigation, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that Morse had been the first to combine the battery, electromagnetism, the electromagnet and the correct battery configuration into a workable practical telegraph.

His action was challenged in court and overturned by the U. S. Circuit Court in Maryland ( led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ) in Ex Parte Merryman, 17 F. Cas.

Use of the previous title when referring to Chief Justices John Jay through Roger B. Taney is technically correct, as that was the legal title during their time on the Court, but the newer title is frequently used retroactively for all Chief Justices.

* October 12 – Roger Taney, United States Supreme Court Justice ( b. 1777 )

** Roger Taney, Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1864 )

The county seat is Frederick, which was home to several celebrated historical figures like Francis Scott Key, Thomas Johnson ( governor ), Roger B. Taney, and Barbara Fritchie.

The county was officially organized on January 4, 1837, and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney, the fifth Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford.

The Opinion of the Court, written by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, stirred debate.

While Chief Justice Roger B. Taney had hoped to settle issues related to slavery and Congressional authority by this decision, it aroused outrage and deepened sectional tensions.

On March 6, 1857, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney delivered the majority opinion.

* Roger Brooke Taney, the Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision was born and raised on a farm near Prince Frederick.

U. S. Supreme Court Justice Roger Brooke Taney, author of the Dred Scott decision, born in 1777, shares a common ancestor with him.

In 1852 Chief Justice Roger Taney of the U. S. Supreme Court transferred the money, by then worth more than $ 50, 000, to Kościuszko's heirs in Poland, ruling that his American will had been invalid.

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Chief Justice Roger Taney, sitting as a federal circuit court judge, ruled that the authority to suspend habeas corpus lay with Congress, not the president.

Merryman's lawyers appealed to Roger Taney to issue the writ.

Following a Maryland state court battle involving Daniel Webster and Roger B. Taney, the companies later compromised to allow the sharing of the right of way.

When Chief Justice Roger B. Taney died in October 1864, Lincoln named Chase to replace him.

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Hopkins ' support of Abraham Lincoln also often put him at odds with some of Maryland's most prominent people, particularly Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney, who continually opposed Lincoln's presidential decisions, such as his policies of limiting habeas corpus and stationing troops in Maryland.

After waiting four months, Jackson summarily dismissed Duane as well, replacing him with attorneys-general Roger B. Taney when Congress was out of session.

Jackson nominated Roger B. Taney on January 15, 1835 to be an Associate Justice.

First of all, Attorney General Roger B. Taney sought to convince Jackson that McLane ’ s plan was really a new packaging of the old Federalist program and in contradiction with Jackson ’ s own past positions.

He was admitted to the bar in 1815, and then moved to Baltimore, where he became a legal colleague of Luther Martin, William Pinkney and Roger B. Taney.

Cushing, a " doughface ," i. e., a Northerner with Southern sympathies, supported the Dred Scott decision and to such a degree that Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who wrote the decision, wrote Cushing a letter thanking him for his support.

Jackson's Kitchen Cabinet included his longtime political allies Martin Van Buren, Francis Preston Blair, Amos Kendall, William B. Lewis, Andrew Jackson Donelson, John Overton, and his new Attorney General Roger B. Taney.

This caused clashes with Jackson and Duane was soon replaced by Roger B. Taney.

* Taney Arrest Warrant, purported 1861 quashed secret order from President Lincoln to arrest the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Taney decided to issue the writ while sitting as the circuit court judge for the District of Maryland rather than as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

— Note that while Taney is named as Chief Justice, this was not properly a Supreme Court case.

Chase was a complete change from the pro-slavery Taney ; one of Chase's first acts as Chief Justice was to admit John Rock as the first African-American attorney to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

In February 1865, there was considerable debate over authorizing the creation of a memorial to United States Chief Justice Roger Taney.

Sumner was a longtime enemy of Chief Justice Taney and attacked his decision in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.

Later, after the political composition of the Senate changed, Taney was confirmed as Chief Justice.

" Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney ( in his Dred Scott decision ) and Stephen Douglas were opposing Thomas Jefferson's self-evident truth, dehumanizing blacks and preparing the public mind to think of them as only property.

The decision was 7 – 2, and every Justice besides Taney wrote a separate concurrence or dissent.