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April 6, 1846 -
Dred Scott filed suit in St. Louis County Circuit Court. Scott was a slave who claimed he should be freed, because his owners took him to the free states of Illinois and Minnesota. Scott lost the first trial at the Old Courthouse, but one a second trial. The case ended up before the US Supreme Court. In 1857, the high court ruled that slaves could not sue because they were not citizens.