As first Chief Justice, his strong nationalist opinions anticipated John Marshall.

John Merryman, a leader in the secessionist group in Maryland, petitioned Chief Justice Roger B. Taney to issue a writ of habeas corpus, saying holding Merryman without a hearing was unlawful.

The doctrine that no man can cast off his native allegiance without the consent of his sovereign was early abandoned in the United States, and Chief Justice John Rutledge also declared in Talbot v. Janson, " a man may, at the same time, enjoy the rights of citizenship under two governments.

It acquired its distinctive large crack sometime in the early 19th century — a widespread story claims it cracked while ringing after the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835.

Because Justice John Paul Stevens had recused himself, only eight Justices heard the case, and it ended in a 4 – 4 tie.

The other judges were John Toohey QC, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia who had worked on Aboriginal issues ( he replaced New Zealander Sir Edward Somers QC, who retired from the Inquiry in 2000 for personal reasons ), and Mr Justice William Hoyt QC, former Chief Justice of New Brunswick and a member of the Canadian Judicial Council.

*( 1964 ) John Jay College of Criminal Justice

* Samuel Dexter, U. S. Representative, Secretary of War, Secretary of the Treasury, administered the oath of office to Chief Justice John Marshall

In 1971 John Rawls published A Theory of Justice, noteworthy in its pursuit of moral arguments and eschewing of meta-ethics.

It is thus possible to speak of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. as an expert in the common law fiqh of the United States, or of Farouk Sultan as an expert in the civil law fiqh of Egypt.

* 1801 – John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.

Of the ten Australians appointed since 1965, Lord Casey, Sir Paul Hasluck and Bill Hayden were former federal parliamentarians ; Sir John Kerr was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales ; Sir Ninian Stephen and Sir William Deane were appointed from the bench of the High Court ; Sir Zelman Cowen was a vice-chancellor of the University of Queensland and constitutional lawyer ; Peter Hollingworth was the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane ; and Major-General Michael Jeffery was a retired military officer and former Governor of Western Australia.

He or she also upon installation automatically becomes a Knight or Dame of Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem.

Additionally two Governors of New York, John Jay and Charles Evans Hughes, have served as Chief Justice of the United States.

Sir John Popham was Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Fleming was Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and two Justices, Sir Thomas Walmsley and Sir Peter Warburton, sat as Justices of the Common Pleas.

* John Joseph Ford ( 1907 – 1982 ), American jurist who served on Los Angeles County Courts ( 1943 – 59 ) and California Second District Court of Appeal ( 1959 – 77 ); elevated to Presiding Justice in 1966

By 1997, the phrase had entered the legal lexicon as seen in an opinion by Supreme Court of the United States Justice John Paul Stevens, ' An example of " junk science " that should be excluded under the Daubert standard as too unreliable would be the testimony of a phrenologist who would purport to prove a defendant ’ s future dangerousness based on the contours of the defendant ’ s skull.

On his way to the Netherlands, he was to deliver a set of documents to Chief Justice John Jay, who was negotiating the Jay Treaty.

* 1955 – John G. Roberts, American jurist and the 17th Chief Justice of the United States

John Marshall, later Chief Justice of the United States, was among his classmates.

* 1786 – John Catron, Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court ( d. 1865 )

* 1801 – John Marshall is appointed the Chief Justice of the United States.

Informal discussions did take place with Secretary of State William Seward through Supreme Court Justice John A. Campbell, an Alabamian who had not yet resigned ; Seward hinted that Fort Sumter would be evacuated, but nothing definite was said.

In an age of oratory, he was the king of orators, and both he himself and Chief Justice Marshall were bathed in manly tears, as Uncle Dan'l reached his thundering climax:

* 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

As the law of corporations was articulated by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Marshall, over the first several decades of the new American state, emphasis fell, in a way which seems natural to us today, upon commercial corporations.

The Court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, found firstly that Madison's refusal to deliver the commission was both illegal and remediable.

This task fell to John Marshall, who, even though recently appointed Chief Justice of the United States, continued as the acting Secretary of State at President Adams's personal request.

One scholar counted thirty-one cases during this period in which courts found statutes unconstitutional, concluding: " The sheer number of these decisions not only belies the notion that the institution of judicial review was created by Chief Justice Marshall in Marbury, it also reflects widespread acceptance and application of the doctrine.

Inscription on the wall of the United States Supreme Court Building | Supreme Court Building from Marbury v. Madison, in which Chief Justice John Marshall outlined the concept of judicial review.

An engraving of Justice Marshall made by Charles-Balthazar-Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin in 1808.

Chief Justice Marshall wrote the opinion of the court.

Chief Justice Marshall, however, did not address jurisdictional issues until addressing the first two questions presented above.

Also, it has been argued that Justice Marshall should have recused himself on the grounds that he was still acting Secretary of State at the time the commissions were to be delivered and it was his brother, James Marshall, who was charged with delivering a number of the commissions.

In that case, Chief Justice John Marshall drew a distinction between two different functions of the Secretary of State.

* His first cousin twice removed was Supreme Court Justice John Marshall.

Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that Captain Little could indeed be sued for damages in the case.

While the U. S. Supreme Court majority in 1896 Plessy explicitly upheld only " separate but equal " facilities ( specifically, transportation facilities ), Justice John Marshall Harlan in his dissent protested that the decision was an expression of white supremacy ; he predicted that segregation would " stimulate aggressions … upon the admitted rights of colored citizens ," " arouse race hate " and " perpetuate a feeling of distrust between races.

* 1755 – John Marshall, American jurist, 4th Chief Justice of the United States ( d. 1835 )

Later, Chief Justice John Marshall suggested that the judgment of one state court must be recognized by other states ' courts as final.

In his dissent, Justice Marshall explained the history of the Section 2 in relation to the Post-Civil War Reconstruction era: