John Marshall’s Supreme Court Cases

In this case, the Cohens were prosecuted successfully by the state of Virginia for selling lottery tickets from the District of Columbia in Virginia, thereby violating Virginia state law. The Supreme Court upheld their convictions. VA favored, already made their decision. Cohens cannot sell lottery tickets.

the supreme court case, heard by the Marshall Court in 1824, that established the federal governments primacy in regulating interstate commerce, saying that the state of New York could not grant an exclusive license to a steamboat company operating between New York and New Jersey.

cherokee appealed to supreme court to stop white encroachments into cherokee nation; marshal ruled in indians favor saying that only federal govt could do that and states had no authority over tribes

the 1883 Supreme Court decision holding that the Bill of Rights retrained only the national government, not the states and cities., Date/Era: 1833, Marshall Court Ruling: In favor of Baltimore Vote: 7-0 Key Rights/Liberties: Compensation for Eminent Domain Other Info: This decision stated that the states were not held to the 5th Amendment of the Constition, stating that just compensation had to be granted for Eminent Domain. The lower Courts had ruled in favor of Barron, but the Supreme Court overturned those decisions. This decision was upheld during the case US v. Cruikshank (1875), but was overturned in the 20th century by using the 14th Amendment to apply the Bill of Rights to the states.

Georgia's sale of thirty-five million acres of land was repealed after public protests about its illegitimacy. Marshall ruled the original transaction binding because state governments had not right to \"impair,\" or interfere with, transactions. Example of federal law surpassing state law.

In this Supreme Court case, Chief Justice John Marshall decided that a state could not interfere with a federal agency exercising its powers within a state., 1819 The federal government chartered a national bank in 1816. The state of maryland levied a heavy tax on nonstate-chartered banks and McCulloch refused to pay the tax. The Supreme Court ruled that under the supremacy clause and elastic clause, the national bank served purposes of the Congress (issuing a national currency, levying taxes, and borrowing money) and therefore was constitutional. Significance: The federal government could exercise greater authority over state power through clauses in the Constitution that were interpreted in such a way that the federal government was favored. A SC ruling that protected the national government from incursions by the states. A powerful precedent that would allow future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state prerogatives.

Marshall ruled that Dartmouth College's charter that had been granted by King George was to be upheld because it was a contract. Set precedent for protecting businesses from state governments. Example of federal law surpassing state law.

(marshall). Established that Indian tribes had the rights to tribal lands that preceded all other American law; only the federal government could take land from the tribes.