Prize Cases

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Prize Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued February 10, 1863 Decided March 10, 1863
Full case name	The Brig Amy Warwick; The Schooner Crenshaw; The Barque Hiawatha; The Schooner Brilliante.
Citations	67 U.S. 635 (more) 2 Black 635; 17 L. Ed. 459; 1862 U.S. LEXIS 282
Holding
The President did have the authority to order a blockade and impound ships, even without a formal declaration of war.
Court membership
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney Associate Justices James M. Wayne · John Catron Samuel Nelson · Robert C. Grier Nathan Clifford · Noah H. Swayne Samuel F. Miller · David Davis
Case opinions
Majority	Grier, joined by Wayne, Swayne, Miller, Davis
Dissent	Nelson, joined by Taney, Catron, Clifford
Laws applied
Article II of the United States Constitution, Admiralty law

Prize Cases, 67 U.S. (2 Black) 635 (1863), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the United States in 1862 during the American Civil War. The Supreme Court's decision declared the blockade of the Southern ports ordered by President Abraham Lincoln constitutional.^[1] The opinion in the case was written by Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier.