Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Jay Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1789 to 1795, when John Jay served as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Jay served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point John Rutledge took office as a recess appointment .
John Jay (December 23 [O.S. December 12], 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, ... Oyez Project U.S. Supreme Court media on John Jay.
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenures of Chief Justices John Jay (October 19, 1789 – June 29, 1795), John Rutledge (August 12, 1795 – December 28, 1795), and Oliver Ellsworth (March 8, 1796 – December 15, 1800), respectively the Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts.
The first Chief Justice of the United States was John Jay; the Court's first docketed case was Van Staphorst v. Maryland (1791), and its first recorded decision was West v. Barnes (1791). [2] Perhaps the most controversial of the Supreme Court's early decisions was Chisholm v.
The facts in the case were not in dispute, and the legal opinion of the court was unanimous, but the Court was nonetheless obligated under the Seventh Amendment to refer the matter to the jury for a general verdict. Chief Justice John Jay's nuanced instructions to the jury have been cited frequently in discussions of jury nullification:
Members of the state Senate will return to Trenton sometime this summer to address the nomination of John Jay Hoffman to the state Supreme Court.
Gov. Phil Murphy announced former acting attorney general John Jay Hoffman as the fifth New Jersey Supreme Court justice nomination of his administration on Monday afternoon.
The state Senate was to convene to review Gov. Phil Murphy's latest nominee for the New Jersey Supreme Court, John Jay Hoffman. Sitting on the chamber's dais as the senate’s last voting session ...