Branches of Government
These are the three branches that control the laws of the Federal Government
What are the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches?
This is the type of harm that each of these lawsuits deal with
What is private injury for civil and harm to society for criminal?
This is the reason we have a Federal Court System.
What's Article 3 of the Constitution?
The jury is this in a trial and the Judge is this during the trial.
What is the fact finder and what is the decision maker?
The Court of Appeals and Supreme Court can do these to a lower court ruling.
What is affirm or reverse?
This is how the branches of government keep each other in line.
What are Checks and Balances?
These are the two categories of crimes.
What are misdemeanors and felonies?
This document supersedes any law that may come into existence, regardless of whether it's federal law or state law
What's the Constitution?
This type of trial is where the judge acts as both the judge and jury.
What is a bench trial?
These are the possible parts of an appellate decision.
What is the majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions?
This is the most powerful court in the United States and has this many justices currently on its bench
What is the Supreme Court of the United States and 9 Justices?
These is the Standard of Proofs for a Civil Case and for a Criminal Case respectively
What are a "Preponderance of the Evidence? and "Beyond a Reasonable Doubt?"
These reasons are how you know that either Federal Law applies, or State Law applies
Fed. - Restricted to issues arising from the US Constitution, statutes congress enact pursuant to US Constitution, or agency regulation
State -
Unless preempted by federal law, generally anything states deem to be in best interests of their citizen
These act as the trial courts for the Federal Circuit.
What are the District Courts?
This is the number of Court of Appeals in the United States.
What is 13?
435, comprising the number of this many people in the Senate and this many people in the House of Representatives.
What are 100 and 435?
Theses are the type of monetary damages that can be received in a civil case
What are compensatory, punitive, and nominal damages?
This is the hierarchy of Courts in the Federal System and in the Missouri System
Federal Court - US District Court, US Court of Appeals, United States Supreme Court
Missouri Court - Trial Court, Missouri Court of Appeals, Missouri Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court
Missouri has this many Federal Trial Courts
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 of each prong of this have to be met in order for any charge in a civil or criminal case for the entity suing to win their case.
What's a prima facie case?
This is how judges for each court system are chosen
Fed. Ct - nominated by President and approved by the Senate
St. Ct. - sometimes appointed, by executive of state, elected, or sometimes both dependent on state
If this runs out, a lawsuit cannot be filed, either in criminal court or in civil court.
What are 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