In our continuing quest to unearth how we got here — our look at seminal cases in American law — among the pantheon of the most influential cases stands the 1803 Supreme Court case of Marbury v.

Yale Law Professor Akhil Reed Amar discusses judicial review and the judicial enforcement of rights against all levels of government, first established in the 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v ...

Marbury is the bedrock of our constitutional law. The Supreme Court has invoked it in moments of national crisis and constitutional greatness—for example, in enforcing Brown v.Board of Education ...

The first landmark ruling delivered by the U.S. Supreme Court was Marbury v. Madison (1803), in which Chief Justice John Marshall asserted the power of judicial review, the authority of ...

Marbury v. Madison strengthened the federal judiciary by giving them the power of judicial review in which the federal courts could declare legislation, including actions by executive and ...

In the seminal case Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court decided that Marbury’s commission was valid and the new administration’s unwillingness to honor it violated a “vested legal right.” ...

Marbury v. Madison, the case that established the courts' power to review the law, explained The Supreme Court is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Dec. 17, 2024.

So, to get his client’s judgeship, Marbury’s lawyer brought a writ of mandamus in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel Jefferson’s Secretary of State James Madison to deliver the commission to ...

The recent Supreme Court ruling involving former President Donald Trump, current President Joe Biden and the Justice Department does not reflect a “win” for Trump or Biden. Instead, the opinion ...

The Wall Street Journal suggests that in discussing the Supreme Court's case on his health-care law, President Obama needs a remedial course in judicial review and Marbury v. Madison.