Michigan State University College of Law

And so, you know what that brought up in my head, alpha, you remember in LA like a month or two ago, um, we were talking about that poll from median strategies that was completely fake like they acknowledged that it was a um an experiment social experiment a social experiment so i went looking this morning and i was like hey did anybody ever sue or were they ever criminally investigated for for doing that and i found this article from la times the la mayoral poll was fake but was it illegal And let's jump down here.

Quinn Yeargain, a professor of the law of democracy at Michigan State University College of Law.

What the bleep is the law of democracy? I don't know.

Said Median's intent would be a decisive factor in determining whether any laws were broken.

Welcome to the American Legal History Podcast, Episode 38, American Law in the Gilded Age, Part 1.

I'm your host, Tim Innes, the Reference and Academic Outreach Librarian at Michigan State University College of Law.

In this first of three installments, we will examine American law after the Civil War, specifically in regard to the rise of truly national corporations, the plight of industrial workers and farmers, classical legal thought, the recrafting of the 14th Amendment by the Supreme Court for the benefit of property and business interests.

We'll take a close look at the first important case concerning the 14th Amendment, the slaughterhouse cases, and its enduring legacy.