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An Ohio County circuit court indicted Taylor Strauder, a Wheeling carpenter, for murdering his wife
Strauder v. West Virginia was the first decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to use the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution to invalidate a state law. In doing so, the 1879 decision gave meaning to the post-Civil War am...
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