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26 Ιαν 2019 · Case Summary of Trustees of Dartmouth v. Woodward: Dartmouth College received its charter from the British Crown before the American Revolution. After the Revolution, the State of New Hampshire altered the charter to take control over the college. The Trustees sued to maintain private control of the college.
28 Αυγ 2024 · Woodward, 17 U.S. 481 (1819), the Supreme Court ruled that the state of New Hampshire had violated the contract clause in its attempt to install a new board of trustees for Dartmouth College. This case also signaled the disestablishment of church and state in New Hampshire.
Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 518 (1819), was a landmark decision in United States corporate law from the United States Supreme Court dealing with the application of the Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution to private corporations.
25 Ιουλ 2019 · Dartmouth College v Woodward is, as every first-year law student knows, a contract case. Its canonical holding distinguished public corporations from private ones and established that where private corporations are concerned, a legislative charter is a contract, protected from legislative…
The legislature changed the school's corporate charter by transferring the control of trustee appointments to the governor. In an attempt to regain authority over the resources of Dartmouth College, the old trustees filed suit against William H. Woodward, who sided with the new appointees.
The most famous and influential contract clause case in our history, Dartmouth College was a boon to higher education and to corporate capitalism. The case established the doctrine, never overruled, that a corporation charter or the grant by a state of corporate rights to private interests comes within the protection of the contract clause.
The Court’s decision affirmed the role that private actors could (and continue to) play in shaping American charitable and educational activities. In the 1760s, Eleazar Wheelock, a Congregational minister and aspiring educator, sought to found a college in New Hampshire.
