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Which best describes the Supreme Court decision in the dred Scott case?

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The court ultimately decided that as he was property of a citizen he could not sue in federal court

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The Dred Scott decision was the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on March 6, 1857, that having lived in a free state and territory did not entitle an enslaved person, Dred Scott, to his freedom.