Were there any US Supreme Court cases during John Adams' Presidency?

Answer 1

President John Adams, a Founding Father and member of the Federalist party, was in office from 1797-1801.

Oliver Ellsworth was Chief Justice of the United States in that period, and the Court heard a total of only 34 cases during Adams' term. Of these, only three are considered notable:

Hollingsworth v. Virginia, 3 US 378 (1798)

Held that Presidential approval was unnecessary for Constitutional Amendment (11th Amendment).

Calder v. Bull, 3 US 386 (1798)

Held that the ex post facto clause (prevents laws from being applied retroactively) only concerned criminal cases.

New York v. Connecticut, 4 US 1 (1799)

First Supreme Court case heard under original jurisdiction. Disagreement between two states, involving a land dispute between private parties, arising from a conflict over which state owned the rights to land each sold to a different entity.

There was one famous Supreme Court case that indirectly involved John Adams, Marbury v. Madison, (1803), in which Marbury, a justice of the peace Adams appointed at the end of his administration, sued the new Secretary of State, James Madison, for delivery of the commission that would allow him to take his appointed office.

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Answer 2

The case was Wayman vs. Southard in 1825, and the Palmyra case in 1827.