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{{Officeholder
|name=Joseph Philo Bradley
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|religion=[[Republican]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/joseph_p_bradley|work=Oyez|title=Joseph P Bradley|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|language=English|format=HTML}}</ref>
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{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=(Associate or Chief)
|nominator=[[Ulysses S. Grant]]
|terms=March 21, 1870 – January 22, 1892
|preceded=(none)
|former=y
|succeeded=[[George Shiras, Jr.]]
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}}
'''Joseph Philo Bradley''' (March 14, 1813 – January 22, 1892) was an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He and [[William Strong]] were appointed to the Court by grant who hoped to pack the Court after ''Hepburn v. Griswold'' declared that the federal government's issuance of paper money; the two helped reverse the decision of the Court in ''Knox v. Lee'' and ''Parker v. Davis''.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/4840/Bradley-Joseph-P.html|format=HTML|language=English|title=Joseph P Bradley|work=law.jrank}}</ref> Bradley wrote the majority opinion in the Civil Rights Cases, which declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional; Bradley also dissented in the ''Slaugher-House Cases'' - which upheld a [[Louisiana]] law that allowed only one company to slaughter cattle in [[New Orleans]] - the Court would later adopt Bradley's opinion.<ref name="jrank"/>

==References==
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==See also==
*[[Civil rights]]

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