These two dudes owned some steamboats, their suit did SCOTUS quell (Gibbons v. Ogden)

This is the latest in a series of Quimbee.com case brief videos. Have you signed up for your Quimbee membership? The American Bar Association offers three months of Quimbee study aids (a $72 value) for law student members. And if you go Premium, you’ll receive Quimbee Legal Ethics Outline (a $29 value) as part of our Premium Legal Ethics Bundle. Ready to go all in? Go Platinum and get 3 years of unlimited access to Quimbee and 3 years of ABA Premium membership (nearly a $1,000 value) for just $499. What started as a case of petty revenge turned into competition on the public waterways, and then became the first Commerce Clause case in Supreme Court history. The facts that gave rise to Gibbons v. Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), ostensibly involve a battle between two steamboat operators, Aaron Ogden and Thomas Gibbons. But it all began when Ogden counseled Gibbons’s wife in divorce proceedings. Ogden then had Gibbons arrested for…

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