Fletcher v. Peck
Decision Date | 01 February 1810 |
Citation | 10 U.S. 87,3 L.Ed. 162,6 Cranch 87 |
Parties | FLETCHER v. PECK |
Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADVANCE. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. Patty
...of the legislative body in casting their votes respecting such enactment presents an entirely different situation. Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch 87, 10 U.S. 87, 3 L.Ed. 162, decided in 1810, contains a discussion of the subject which is applicable today. In his opinion beginning on page 128 of......
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City and County of San Francisco v. Cooper
....' (citations).' This principle was articulated and explained by Chief Justice Marshall in the seminal decision of Fletcher v. Peck (1810) 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 3 L.Ed. 162. In Fletcher an act of the Georgia Legislature, selling public land to private parties, was challenged on the ground ......
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Blank v. Kirwan
...agency of government." (In re Fain (1976) 65 Cal.App.3d 376, 393, fn. 14, 135 Cal.Rptr. 543; see, e.g., Fletcher v. Peck (1810) 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 130, 3 L.Ed. 162; County of Los Angeles v. Superior Court (1975) 13 Cal.3d 721, 723, 727, fn. 5, 119 Cal.Rptr. 631, 532 P.2d 495.) Thus, the......
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Gruen v. State Tax Commission
... ... was valid, or whether the legislature had transcended its ... power in enacting it. The court referred to Fletcher v ... Peck, 6 Cranch 87, 10 U.S. 87, 3 L.Ed. 162, which was ... the first case in the supreme court in which the question ... ...
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The Vacancies Act and an Acting Attorney General
...would have been suspect on the basis that "one legislature cannot abridge the powers of a succeeding legislature." E.g., Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 135 (1810). A requirement to have Congress insert such a provision in future laws relating to FVRA could have been seen as similarly abridgi......
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PRIVATIZATION, PUBLIC COMMONS, AND THE TAKINGSIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW.
...(67) Ely, Still in Exile, supra note 11, at 95; see also ELY, THE CONTRACT CLAUSE, supra note 65, at 32-36 (describing Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 135 (1810), which held that state land grants constituted public contracts vesting absolute rights and "a repeal of the law cannot devest thos......
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The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court:Part 2, Beyond Contract Law
...histoRy 1 (2016). 47. U.S. const. art. I, § 10, cl. 1. 48. See ely, supra note 46, at 147, 190–91. 49. 36 U.S. 420 (1837). 50. 10 U.S. 87, 137 (1810). 51. See 2 Ronald d. Rotunda & John e. noWaK, Rotunda and noWaK’s tReatise on constitutional laW—substance and PRoceduRe § 15.1(b), Westlaw (......
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Sovereign Immunity Tests Bankruptcy's Least Contested Axioms
...suitable articles shall have been agreed upon." See Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Fr.-U.S., art. VI, Apr. 30, 1803.110. Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 142-43 (1810) ("[T]he nature of the Indian title, which is certainly to be respected by all courts, until it be legitimately extinguished, is no......
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