WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Dred Scott decision has been called the worst decision in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court. On the 150th anniversary of the court's ruling in favor of slavery, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will lead a group of panelists who will offer a personal and legal perspective about this nation-dividing decision. Abraham Lincoln criticized the ruling when he was running for the U.S. Senate during the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates and the issue of slavery later became a major platform in his 1860 presidential campaign. The outrage over the decision led to the election of Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, the emancipation proclamation and finally freedom. - Mark Shurtleff, author of a forthcoming book on Dred Scott and chair of