Constitution
Cases
Appeals
Levels
Mystery
100
The section of the Constitution about the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
100
A court case where one person/party sues another party.
What is a civil case?
100
A court with 3 or more judges on the bench.
What is the Court of Appeals?
100
The location of the Supreme Court.
What is Washington, D.C.?
100
The state where a man burned an American flag and the Supreme court upheld his actions as Constitutional.
What is Texas?
200
The highest court in the United States.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The decision of a court case.
What is the verdict?
200
The written explanation for why appellate judges/justices made their decision.
What is an opinion?
200
The court with 13 circuits.
What is the Court of Appeals?
200
A Supreme Court case on student's freedom of speech, where the students won.
What is Tinker vs. Des Moines?
300
Those responsible for deciding a criminal case.
What is a jury?
300
The courts above the trial courts.
What are the appellate courts?
300
The question-and-answer session judges have with lawyers prior to deciding a case.
What are oral arguments?
300
When an appellate court sends the case back down for a re-trial.
What is remand?
300
A girl who sued her school district for allowing an unreasonable strip-search.
Who is Savana?
400
When the Supreme Court sees cases affecting ambassadors or other public ministers and when two states are involved in a dispute.
What is original jurisdiction?
400
When there is no jury and only judges/justices deciding the outcome of the case.
What is a bench trial?
400
A court without witnesses or evidence who decides whether the appellate judges made the right decision.
What is the Supreme Court?
400
94
What is the number of district courts?
400
The law students said was broken when they weren't allowed to publish their articles in the school newspaper at Hazelwood.
What is the First Amendment?
500
The Supreme Court case that gave the judicial branch the power to strike down laws.
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
500
Something the trial court uses to decide who is innocent or guilty.
What is evidence?
500
When all the judges in a circuit hear a case to reconsider the decision.
What is en banc?
500
Traditional names given to the appellate court's judges
What are justices?
500
The name of the convertible Honda was trying to sell in their James Bob ad.
What is Del Sol?
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