Scope of 14th Amendment

• Federal Rights Only
• Slaughterhouse Cases
• Miller, S. Ct. 1873
• Facts: To fight cholera outbreaks, New Orleans passed a law giving monopoly on slaughterhouse activities to the company Crescent City. Slaughterhouses sued for their 14 amendment "privileges and immunities."
• Holding: The "privileges and immunities" clause only covers Federally-guaranteed rights, not state-guaranteed rights.
• Only State Actors
• Civil Rights Cases (1883) (only state actors)
• All state actors (incorporation)
• Incorporated provisions
• Unincorporated provisions
• 3rd Amendment (quartering)
• 5th Amend. Grand jury clause
• 7th Amendment (jury trial)
• 8th Amendment, all except "cruel and unusual"