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Peter Scott Campbell's blog: John Marshall Harlan and the Great Margarine Controversy of 1898

John Marshall Harlan is still making the news.  Here’s a story from Monday’s (April 12,2010) issue of The Union Leader about a 1898 Supreme Court decision that apparently still making waves in New Hampshire.  The case in question is Collins v. New Hampshire (171 US 30) in which the Supreme Court voted 7-2 to strike down a New Hampshire law that required margarine to be colored pink. The Great Dissenter, of course, lived up to his nickname by voting to uphold the law. But why? Was it read more

Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on April 13, 2010 (boomark / email).