Slaughterhouse Cases

The Slaughterhouse Cases, an 1873 U.S. Supreme Court decision that narrowly interpreted the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, limiting federal protection of individual rights against state action and thereby enabling later race-based discrimination and the exoneration of perpetrators in cases like the Colfax Massacre.

Claims that use this term

• The Slaughterhouse doctrine still shields race-veiled discrimination today
• The Slaughterhouse decision enabled later exoneration of Colfax Massacre killers