Yale...the case can be found at:
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=US&vol=40
&page=518
Sandra Hyclak
Bricker & Eckler
Columbus, Ohio
shycl@be.bricker.com
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> From:
> Yale_Lansky@ca1.uscourts.gov[SMTP:Yale_Lansky@ca1.uscourts.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 1997 2:49 PM
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Amistad the movie and the case
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> Subject: Amistad the movie and the case
> Author: Yale Lansky at BOS010APO
> Date: 12/4/97 2:44 PM
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> I just assisted a patron who was looking for the case that is the
>
> basis of a new Steven Spielberg movie called Amistad. Apparantly
> there
> is a lot of controversy over the movie and people may be looking
> for
> the case. (it was argued by John Quincy Adams in 1841.) The
> cite is:
> 40 US 518 (15 Peters 518) 1841.
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>
> Yale Lansky
> US Court of Appeals Library for the First Circuit
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