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At least four. The District Court judge believed Dred and Harriet should be free under the "once free, always free" doctrine because they had both resided in territories that prohibited slavery. Dred Scott lived in Illinois, a free state governed by the Northwest Ordinance, and he and his wife lived together in the Wisconsin Territories, an unincorporated area controlled by Congress, that also prohibited slavery.

One of the three judges in the Court of Appeals agreed with the District Court judge, but the other two upheld Irene Emerson's claim to ownership.

Two of the nine US Supreme Court justices, Justices John McLean and Benjamin Curtis, also believed Scott and his family should be free.

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