Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Markovich v. Leavitt
552 U.S. 816
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 2007-10-01
- Topic
- litigation
How later courts describe this case
- holding that descendants of former slaves claiming to sue as representatives of their ancestors’ estates authorized to sue on their behalf “just have to prove the injury to the ancestors; the trickle-down question is elided”
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Petition for writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied.