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Why was the Amistad case taken all the way to the US Supreme Court?
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∙ 13y ago
Because the black slaves were taken from another ship, and they are identified as cargo, not people. On the cargo sheet, 50 pieces of cargo were taken away, turns out, 50 slaves were drowned.
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In the movie La Amistad why did the case had to go to the supreme court?
because they kept on changing the judge seeing that the case was never going to end it caught the attention of the supreme court.
The supreme court case involving La Amistad dealt with what issues?
africans kidnapped by the spanish and brought to the united states
How was John Quincy Adams connected with the Amistad?
After he was President, Adams successfully represented the slave mutineers in their case before the US Supreme Court.
The 1841 supreme court case against kidnapped africans who had mutinied aboard La Amistad was argued by what people?
John Quincy Adams
How does the Supreme Court help us?
If a decision made at District Court is successfully appealled, the case gets taken to a higher court. If there wasn't a Supreme Court, cases would keep getting appealled and taken to a higher court each time. Rulings by the Supreme Court can get appealled (the case would get taken to Congress), but this process is very difficult. The Supreme Court also has a duty to make sure laws and actions by the President and Congress are not unconsitutional.
Was Emmett Till's court case a supreme court case?
No it was not a supreme court case, but a state case because it was held in the local court
How does a case on appeal reach a supreme court?
A case on appeal reaches the supreme court if the judges below them cant handle it or that case specifically but it is very hard to get a case on appeal in the supreme court
How did the supreme court settle this famous case from la amistad?
The Supreme court decided to free the African slaves and soon after, return them to their home. The retired president, John Quincy Adamas, convinced the Supreme Court that the Africans were born equal and deserve their freedom. He even argued that the Africans were never legal property in the first place. There was enough evidence to support the information given to them.
Who won in the Rhodes v Chapman supreme court case?
chapman won the supreme court case
Who decide whether or not the Supreme Court will review case?
who decides whether or not the supreme court will review a case
What does the supreme court case us v bagley do?
What does the supreme court case burns v. reed do?
Who defended the Amistad Africans before the US Supreme Court in March of 1841?
United States v. Libellants and Claimants of the Schooner Amistad, 40 US 518 (1841)In the Amistad case, former President John Quincy Adams was supposed to defend the 53 kidnapped Africans before the US Supreme Court, but fell ill just before oral arguments began. Adams was replaced by Roger Sherman Baldwin, a prominent attorney who had already defended the men in the lower courts. (Roger Baldwin was not related to US Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin, who was the sole dissenter in the case).Attorney General Henry D. Gilpin argued on behalf of the United States.The Supreme Court ruled the men were not slaves, but legally free, and ordered them into the custody of the US President for return to their home country.
