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Creation of Supreme Court
First Supreme Court ever established and used. It is important because it is where the court of law was began and still continue everywhere today. -
John Jay
John Jay was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, and the first Chief Justice of the United States. -
John Marshall
John Marshall was the Chief Justice of the United States court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law. -
Marbury Vs. Madison
Marbury calls the court unconstitutional, because of this there was a judiacial review. -
Fletcher Vs. Peck
Fletcher sued peck.The first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional, the decision also helped create a growing precedent for the sanctity of legal contracts, and hinted that Native Americans did not hold title to their own lands -
Dartmouth vs Woodward
New Hampshire legislature tried to force dartmouth college to become public instead of private. -
McCollough vs Maryland
Though the law, by its language, was generally applicable to all banks not chartered in Maryland, the Second Bank of the United States was the only out-of-state bank then existing in Maryland, and the law was recognized in the court's opinion as having specifically targeted the U.S. Bank. -
Gibbons vs Ogden
landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution -
Cherokee Nation vs Georgia
The Cherokee Nation sought a federal injunction against laws passed by the state of Georgia depriving them of rights within its boundaries, but the Supreme Court did not hear the case on its merits. It ruled that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter, as the Cherokee were a dependent nation -
Worcester vs Georgia
Was a case in which the United States Supreme Court vacated the conviction of Samuel Worcester and held that the Georgia criminal statute that prohibited non-Indians from being present on Indian lands without a license from the state was unconstitutional -
Commonwealth vs Hunt
A landmark legal decision issued by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on the subject of labor unions -
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Known as the Dred Scott Decision, was a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.Despite the fact that the decision is no longer "jurisprudentially important," it nevertheless had, and continues to have, lasting cultural and historical ramification/implications
