The U.S. Supreme Court's first use of Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution was in the In re Debs case.

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The first use of Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution by the Supreme Court was not in the In re Debs case, but rather in cases dealing with the Contracts Clause, such as Fletcher v. Peck (1810) and Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), long before In re Debs, which was in 1895.

The US Supreme Court's First Use of Article I, Section 10