Fletcher v. Peck
Decision Date | 01 February 1810 |
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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Table of Cases
...Fleitmann v. Welsbach Street Lighting Co., 240 U.S. 27, 36 S.Ct. 233, 60 L.Ed. 505 (1916), 994 Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 3 L.Ed. 162 (1810), 131, 372, 432, 952, Florida Bar v. Went For It, Inc., 515 U.S. 618, 115 S.Ct. 2371, 132 L.Ed.2d 541 (1995), 352, 395, 1491 Florida Dep'......
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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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The Property Clause, Article Iv, and Constitutional Structure
...No. 7, at 60-61 (Alexander Hamilton) (Clinton Rossiter ed., 1961) (noting risks of conflicts over western land claims); Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 142 (1810) (Marshall, C.J.) (stating that resolution of western land claims "was a momentous question which . . . threatened to shake the Ame......
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The Supreme Court and Federal Indian Policy
...v. Harris, 401 U.S. 37, 44 (1971) Texas v. Florida, 306 U.S. 398, 428 (1939) (Frankfurter, J., dissenting). 67. See Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. 87, 121, 142-43 (1810) id. at 145-47 (Johnson, J., concurring). 68. Frickey, (Native) American Exceptionalism, supra note 27, at 436. See also id. at......
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