What did the Supreme Court decide? What was the reasoning used by the justices?

Question

More about the DRED SCOTT CASE if you have any information on this please IM me asap!

Answer 1

Scott went to trial in June of 1847 but lost on a technicality: he could not prove that he and Harriet were owned by Emerson's widow. The following year, the Missouri Supreme Court decided that the case should be retried. In an 1850 retrial, a St. Louis circuit court ruled that Scott and his family were free. Two years later, the Missouri Supreme Court stepped in again, reversing the decision of the lower court. Scott and his lawyers then brought his case to a federal court, the United States Circuit Court in Missouri. In 1854, the Circuit Court upheld the decision of the Missouri Supreme Court. There was now only one other place to go. Scott appealed his case to the United States Supreme Court, but lost.