The Supreme Court held that the discharge of a jury, unable to agree, without the consent of the prisoner, before verdict, is not a bar to a future trial for the same offence. Justice Story announced that courts possess authority to discharge a jury whenever there is a manifest necessity for the act or the ends of…
Supreme Court of the United States, 1824
Published opinions from 1824. The case name opens the case page.
1824 opinions
The Supreme Court sustained the Bank of the United States' suit in the Circuit Court for the District of Ohio against Ohio's auditor, treasurer, and their agents to recover $100,000 seized under an Ohio tax law directed against the Bank.
On appeal from New York's highest court, the Supreme Court sustained Gibbons's challenge to the New York statutes granting Livingston and Fulton an exclusive right to navigate the State's waters by steam: as the Court's announced decision states, those acts are repugnant to the Commerce Clause insofar as they prohibit…
The Supreme Court denied the petition for mandamus seeking to restore attorney Burr to the bar, holding that the lower court’s suspension proceedings were not irregular and that the Court lacks authority to intervene absent a clear overstep.