6 mar 1810 año - Fletcher v. Peck

Descripción:

A landmark Supreme Court case in which the Court granted itself the power of judicial review over state laws. The actual case revolved around the Yazoo land claimed by Georgia (modern-day Mississippi and Alabama). A land act was revealed to be fraudulent, and was nullified by the next politicians that assumed Georgian office. While the land act was still in effect, speculator Robert Fletcher purchased land from fellow speculator John Peck. Fletcher filed a lawsuit, claiming Peck didn't have rights to the land when he sold it. In a 9-0 vote, the Marshall Supreme Court ruled that the contract could not be repealed, even if it was created through fraud. Through this, the Supreme Court granted themselves the power to uphold or nullify the laws of states based on their constitutionality, known as judicial review. This power had been expanded through this case from just over federal laws, granted in Marbury v. Madison.