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The Brown vs Board of Education court case occurred four years after Sweatt vs Painter court case. In the Brown case, laws establishing racial segregation were deemed unconstitutional. In the Sweatt case, one man sued due to not being accepted into a law school based on the color of his skin.
It allowed the Supreme Court to overrule an unconstitutional law.
The Supreme Court of the United States found that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. It was the first case declared to be so and was known as Marbury vs. Madison.
The Supreme Court gained the power to declare laws unconstitutional
In the case of Marbury vs. Madison, this was the first time the U.S. Supreme court declared an act of Congress to be unconstitutional.