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.

Taney promptly issued a writ of habeas corpus for Merryman demanding that General George Cadwalader, the commander of Fort McHenry, where Merryman was being held, bring Merryman before him the next day.

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.

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

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.

Taney reacted by issuing a writ of attachment for Cadwalader, which ordered a U. S. Marshal to seize him and bring him before the court the following day.

Taney protested Lincoln's secret notice granting military personnel the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus.

A writ of certiorari brought the case to the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Roger Taney.

Merryman petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was granted by Chief Justice Taney, but the writ was disobeyed by General George Cadwalader, the arresting officer, under orders from President Lincoln, even though Taney cited Cadwalader for contempt.

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

Taney was politically a partisan Democrat and an opponent of Lincoln.

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

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.

" 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.

* Simon, James F. ( 2006 ) Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers ( Paperback ) New York: Simon & Schuster, 336 pages.

Lincoln said that Chief Justice Roger Taney was the first person who said that the Declaration of Independence did not apply to blacks and that Douglas was the second.

The Taney Arrest Warrant is a conjectural controversy in Abraham Lincoln scholarship.

The argument is that in late May or early June 1861 President Lincoln secretly ordered an arrest warrant for Roger B. Taney, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but abandoned the proposal.

" That President Lincoln considered, and then rejected, the possibility of arresting Taney is briefly mentioned in The Civil War produced by Ken Burns and aired on Public Broadcasting Service ( PBS ) Public television stations.

" After Chief Justice Roger B. Taney attacked the president for this policy, Lincoln responded in a Special Session to Congress on July 4, 1861 that an insurrection " in nearly one-third of the States had subverted the whole of the laws.

Taney then overturned the Missouri Compromise, which banned slavery in territory north of the 36 ° 30 ' parallel.

One sad-looking clump of coconut palms was jokingly called " King-Doyle Park " after two well-known citizens of Hawaii who visited on the Taney in 1938.

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.

On 7 February 1942, the USCGC Taney evacuated the colonists, then shelled and burned the dwellings.

* 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.

The Taney Court ( 1836 – 1864 ) made several important rulings, such as Sheldon v. Sill, which held that while Congress may not limit the subjects the Supreme Court may hear, it may limit the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts to prevent them from hearing cases dealing with certain subjects.

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.

At the order of the Dowager Electress, the Hanoverian agents, supported by the Whig leaders, demanded that a writ of summons be issued which would call the Duke to England to sit in Parliament, thus further insuring the Succession by establishing a Hanoverian Prince in England before the Queen's death.

Three weeks later, following his recovery, armed with a writ issued by the Catskill justice on affidavits prepared by the district attorney, Cook and Russell rode to arrest Martinez.

In respect of the High Court, historically a writ of latitat would have been issued, but now a bench warrant is issued, authorizing the tipstaff to arrange for the arrest of the individual, and imprisonment until the date and time the court appoints to next sit.

The writ of habeas corpus is one of what are called the " extraordinary ", " common law ", or " prerogative writs ", which were historically issued by the English courts in the name of the monarch to control inferior courts and public authorities within the kingdom.

Then, as now, the writ of habeas corpus was issued by a superior court in the name of the Sovereign, and commanded the addressee ( a lower court, sheriff, or private subject ) to produce the prisoner before the royal courts of law.

However, rather than issuing the writ immediately and waiting for the return of the writ by the custodian, modern practice in England is for the original application to be followed by a hearing with both parties present to decide the legality of the detention, without any writ being issued.

* 1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.

* 1285 – The writ Circumspecte Agatis, issued by King Edward I of England, defines the jurisdictions of church and state in England, thereby limiting the church's judicial powers to ecclesiastical cases only.

While in London, Somersett had been baptised ; three godparents issued a writ of habeas corpus.

* The writ Circumspecte Agatis, issued by King Edward I of England, defines the jurisdictions of church and state in England, thereby limiting the church's judicial powers to ecclesiastical cases only.

The origin of Baltimore County is not known ; the earliest known record of the county politically is January 12, 1659, when a writ was issued to its sheriff.

It certainly existed by February 12, 1661, when a writ was issued to its sheriff.

If pardon was not pled, the House of Lords issued a writ of certiorari commanding the King's Bench Court to send the case up to it.

The committee issued a permanent writ of Disconnection, forbidding all other Scientologists from having contact with the accused.

A writ of mandamus or mandamus ( which means " we command " in Latin ; ), or sometimes mandate, is the name of one of the prerogative writs in the common law, and is " issued by a superior court to compel a lower court or a government officer to perform mandatory or purely ministerial duties correctly.

In some U. S. states, such as California, the writ is now called mandate instead of mandamus, and may be issued by any level of the state court system to any lower court or to any government official.

Heron appealed to the Courts which issued a writ of mandamus requiring the case to be adjudicated by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Primate of Ireland.

Skirmishes with Edward over clerical privileges, royal power, Peckham's use of excommunication, and ecclesiastical taxation continued, but in October 1286, Edward issued a writ entitled Circumspecte Agatis which specified what types of cases the ecclesiastical courts could hear.

A man alleged to be a soldier in the Maryland State Militia was detained in Fort McHenry, and Judge Giles in Baltimore issued a writ of habeas corpus, but the fort's commander, Major W. W. Morris, wrote in reply, " At the date of issuing your writ, and for two weeks previous, the city in which you live, and where your court has been held, was entirely under the control of revolutionary authorities.