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the finding of judgment of a court
What is verdict?
100
a period of time during which justices study facts and briefs of the case
What is recess?
100
part of the United States, but not one of the 50 states or the District of Columbia
What is a territory?
100
court that hears cases involving money and the federal government
What is the Federal Claims Court?
100
a short statement of the facts and point of law in a case
What is a brief?
200
to overturn or set aside
What is reverse?
200
to ask a highter court to review a case
What is appeal?
200
to carry someone off by force
What is kidnap?
200
the amendment where the Supreme Court overturned its decision on school segregation
What is the fourteenth amendment?
200
the only federal courts that use juries
What are the district courts?
300
the power and right to interpret and apply the law
What is jurisdiction
300
a person accused of doing something that is not legal
What is a defendant?
300
to break a law or rule
What is violate?
300
what the Supreme Court holds at the start of a session
What is a public sitting?
300
year the Supreme Court made it illegal to segregate schools
What is 1954?
400
the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstituational
What is judicial review?
400
a public session held at the start of a Supreme Court case
What is a sitting?
400
to divide and give out according to a plan
What is apportion?
400
the highest official on the Supreme Court
Who is the chief justice?
400
this court hears cases appealed from the Court of International Trade
What is courts of customs and patent appeals?
500
a Supreme court policy of not interfering with Congressional or presidential decisions
What is judicial restraint?
500
an assigned area or district
What is a circuit?
500
a Supreme Court policy of shaping social and political issues
What is judicial activism?
500
the court of appeals verdict is decided by this
What is the judge's majority vote?
500
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over a case if the case involves this
What is an ambassador?
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