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Constitutional Law Keyed to Feldman
Slaughter-House Cases
Citation:
16 Wall. (83. U.S.) 36, 21 L. Ed. 394 (1873)Facts
Under the Louisiana law of 1869, the Crescent City Livestock Landing and Slaughter-House Company was created and granted a 25-year right to maintain slaughterhouses in an area that included the city of New Orleans. The law required all competing facilities to close but required the new corporation to permit independent butchers to slaughter cattle in its slaughterhouses at charges fixed by statute. Butchers not included in the monopoly claimed that the law deprived their right to exercise their trade and challenged it under the Fourteenth Amendment.
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