He went through years of legal battles and his case was appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The court decided that any other black Americans, slave or free, could not sue in federal court. Famously, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote, "[Blacks] had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and which the negro might justly and lawfully be enslaved for his own benefit." Although he lived in a place where slavery had been abolished, he was still a slave. Crucially, the court also ruled that Congress was prohibited from passing laws that prevented slave owners from bringing their slaves westward deeply in the virtue of free labor, since social mobility was possible. Through hard work, every man could improve his conditions - the essence of the American dream. Northern people did not believe that free white labor could compete with the slave labor of white Southerners. The Scott decision further outrages i