Branches of Government
These are the three branches of the Federal Government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches?
The injured party in a civil case.
Who is the plaintiff?
This is the reason we have a Federal Court System.
What is the Constitution? (Article III)
The jury is this in a trial.
What is the finder of fact?
The Court of Appeals and Supreme Court can do these 2 primary things to a lower court ruling.
What is affirm or reverse?
This is how the branches of government keep each other from getting too powerful.
What are Checks and Balances?
These are the two major categories of crimes.
What are misdemeanors and felonies?
This is the intermediary appellate court in the Federal system.
What is the Circuit Court of Appeals?
This type of trial is where the judge acts as both the judge and jury.
What is a bench trial?
These are possible parts of an appellate decision.
What is the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions?
This is the highest and most powerful court in the United States
What is the Supreme Court of the United States?
The Standard of Proof for a Civil Case.
What is "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?"
The type of case that State Courts have jurisdiction over.
What is generally anything states deem to be in best interests of their citizens, unless preempted by federal law?
These act as the trial courts for the Federal Circuit.
What are the District Courts?
This is the number of Circuit Courts in the United States.
What is 13?
The number of this many people in the United States Senate and this many people in the United States House of Representatives. (Need both numbers).
What are 100 and 435?
The types of damages that can be awarded in a civil case
What are compensatory, punitive, and nominal damages?
The hierarchy of Courts in the Missouri Court System.
Trial Court, Missouri Court of Appeals, Missouri Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court
Missouri has this many Federal Trial Courts
What are two - the Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri?
These are the two types of federal jurisdiction.
What are Diversity and Federal Question Jurisdictions?
This is how the House of Representatives calculates the number of people that a state is allowed to represent it and this is how the Senate has its allowed number per state.
What is "Number Based off of Population" and "set at 2 per state?"
The elements to be met in order for any successful charge in a civil or criminal case.
What's a prima facie case?
How judges are chosen in the Federal System.
What is nominated by the President and approved by the Senate?
If this runs out, a lawsuit cannot be successfully filed, either in criminal court or in civil court.
What is the statute of limitations?
This is the difference between interstate and intrastate.
Interstate - something occuring between two or more states or the US and another Country
Intrastate - something occuring within a single state