Fletcher v. Peck

Decision Date01 February 1810
Citation10 U.S. 87,3 L.Ed. 162,6 Cranch 87
PartiesFLETCHER v. PECK
CourtU.S. Supreme Court

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  • NATIONAL ASS'N FOR ADVANCE. OF COLORED PEOPLE v. Patty
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Virginia
    • January 21, 1958
    ...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......
  • City and County of San Francisco v. Cooper
    • United States
    • California Supreme Court
    • April 4, 1975
    ....' (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 ......
  • Blank v. Kirwan
    • United States
    • California Supreme Court
    • August 1, 1985
    ...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......
  • Gruen v. State Tax Commission
    • United States
    • Washington Supreme Court
    • November 5, 1949
    ... ... 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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19 books & journal articles
  • The Vacancies Act and an Acting Attorney General
    • United States
    • Georgia State University College of Law Georgia State Law Reviews No. 36-3, March 2020
    • Invalid date
    ...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......
  • PRIVATIZATION, PUBLIC COMMONS, AND THE TAKINGSIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL LAW.
    • United States
    • University of Pennsylvania Law Review Vol. 171 No. 3, March 2023
    • March 1, 2023
    ...(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......
  • The Construction Industry in the U.S. Supreme Court:Part 2, Beyond Contract Law
    • United States
    • ABA General Library The Construction Lawyer No. 41-3, July 2021
    • July 1, 2021
    ...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 (......
  • Sovereign Immunity Tests Bankruptcy's Least Contested Axioms
    • United States
    • Emory University School of Law Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal No. 39-1, March 2023
    • Invalid date
    ...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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