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The legal term which refers to a court’s authority to hear a case, based on either geographical location or the type of case.
What is jurisdiction?
The Supreme Court was established this year.
What is 1789?
This type of lawyer specializes in legal matters such as divorce, child custody, and adoption.
What is a family law attorney?
This tax Trump has imposed on more than 300,000 imports under an emergency economic law was struck down by the Supreme Court on February 20 though the court did not provide any guidance on how the government should refund that money.
What is a tariff?
The first female Supreme Court Justice.
Who is Sandra Day O’Connor?
The legal doctrine meaning, "to stand by things decided," requires courts to follow precedent—decisions from previous cases—to ensure consistency and predictability in the law.
What is stare decisis?
In this Supreme Court case the Court rule that the President does not have an “absolute, unqualified” privilege to withhold information in a criminal investigation.
What is United States v. Nixon (1974)?
This type of lawyer specializes in protecting inventions, trademarks, and creative works by ensuring legal rights through patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
What is an Intellectual Property (IP) lawyer?
This act was created in November 2025 to compel the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release millions of documents, videos, and images related to a prominent New York investment banker.
What is the Epstein Files Transparency Act?
When you hear law clerks in D.C. talking about "The Highest Court in the Land," they might be talking about the Supreme Court, but they also might be referring to a space on the fifth floor of the Supreme Court building. The building’s fifth floor is reserved for this purpose.
What is basketball?
The constitutional doctrine or clause that allows state and federal laws to coexist, but invalidates a state law when it conflicts with a federal law.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
This 1896 Supreme Court decision upheld a Louisiana law forbidding a Black man to board a whites-only train car, with a "separate but equal" doctrine that perpetuated Jim Crow laws thereafter.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)?
The legal term for a request made to a higher court to review and change the decision of a lower court.
What is an appeal?
The Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday, March 2 on a federal law making it a crime for users of this substance to possess a firearm.
What is marijuana?
In the movie “Erin Brockovich,” this actress plays the titular character, a legal clerk who helps win a major lawsuit against a utility company.
Who is Julia Roberts?
The common law term for a civil wrongdoing that leads to harm or loss which derives from the Latin word meaning “twist”.
What is tort?
The first law school, affiliated with an established university, in the United States.
What is William and Mary?
You’re a recent law school grad, this position helping a judge would help you gain real-world experience with research and writing.
What is a clerkship/Judicial Clerkship?
In late February, the 5th U.S. The Circuit Court of Appeals voted 12-6 to lift a block that a lower court first placed on a law requiring the display of this religious text in Louisiana School District classrooms.
What is the Ten Commandments?
This famous U.S. court figure received her J.D. from New York Law School in 1965 and handled over 20,00 family court cases in Manhattan before retiring from her position in the 1990s, when the second phase of her career brought her worldwide fame.
Who is Judge Judy?
The Latin term meaning “guilty mind” refers to the intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of the crime as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused.
What is mens rea?
Arabella Mansfield became the first female lawyer in the United States in 1869. She was admitted into this state’s bar, which is also the first state to allow women to practice law before its state Supreme Court.
What is Iowa?
The legal term in civil cases describes a situation where a party voluntarily settles a case before it goes to trial, often in order to avoid the risks of litigation.
What is a settlement?
Federal courts around the country are currently hearing cases surrounding Trump’s invocation of this 18th-century wartime law in an effort to round up and deport scores of immigrants who he claimed were members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
What is the Alien Enemies Act (1798)?
This former president later served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Who is Taft?