What do you have in mind? Reparations? Revenge?

Do you mean lawsuits in the antebellum period? Yes. The most famous example is Dred Scott v. Sandford. The majority opinion, concurrence, and dissents span hundreds of pages. Modern readers will probably be outraged the holdings, which include the finding that (former) slaves could not be U.S. citizens and so there could not be federal diversity jurisdiction.