http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1803/ U.S. Supreme Court Cases, presented by The Oyez Project (www.oyez.org) en-us <p>The case began on March 2, 1801, when an obscure Federalist, William Marbury, was designated as a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia. Marbury and several others were appointed to government posts created by Congress in the last days of John Adams's presidency, but these last-minute appointments were never fully finalized. The disgruntled appointees invoked an act of Congress and sued for their jobs in the Supreme Court.</p> http://www.oyez.org/cases/1792-1850/1803/1803_0/