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The slaughterhouse cases
regulation, reconstruction, and the Fourteenth Amendment
By Labbe, Ronald M. & Labbé, Ronald G. & Lurie, Jonathan
- ISBN
- 978-0-70061-290-1
- Publisher
- Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 15, 2004
Labbe, an expert on Louisiana law, and Lurie (history & law, Rutgers Univ.) examine an 1869 enactment of the Louisiana legislature that was contested in the state's lower courts and ultimately upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. This enactment called for all of the slaughterhouses in New Orleans to be consolidated and relocated to a cleaner location; the city's butchers roundly protested, citing in defense the Fourteenth Amendment. Ordinarily, such issues would be simple matters of...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
