The Judiciary

That crazy rock-n-roll

100

This refers to jurisdiction given exclusively to the federal (or state) court system.

What is exclusive jx?

200

Congress has the option, but not the requirement, to create this type of court.

What is an "inferior court"?

300

This is the greatest blues rock guitarist.

Who is Stevie Ray Vaughan?

400

Trial courts have this type of jx.

What is original jx?

500

Federal judges' terms last this long.

What is for life during good behavior?

Jazz

100

These are the three basic levels of the federal judiciary system.

What are the District Court (a/k/a trial court), Court of Appeal (a/k/a Circuit Court or appellate court), and the Supreme Court?

200

This is the greatest jazz guitarist ever.

Who is Pat Metheny?

300

This is the type of federal court jurisdiction arising from a dispute about the Constitution or federal law.

What is federal question jx?

400

This is the name given to unsigned Supreme Court opinions.

What is a per curiam opinion?

500

According to Federalist #78, while the President holds the sword and Congress holds the purse, the Supreme Court has only this.

What is its judgment (or power to persuade).

Musicals

100

This is the formal name for a request that the Supreme Court allow a party to appeal a case to the USSC.

What is a petition for a writ of certiorari (or petition for cert)?

200

This is the case that established once and for all that the Supreme Court has the right to determine whether a law is constitutional.

What is Marbury v. Madison?

300

This is the greatest musical ever.

What is Hamilton (what else was a gov't teacher to say)?

400

This is the name of the requirement that must be met before a petition for cert will be granted.

What is the Rule of 4?

500

These are the names of the four types of opinions that the USSC Justices may write.

What are (1) the majority opinion, (2) a concurring opinion, (3) a plurality opinion, and (4) a dissenting opinion?

Theme music

100

This is the TV sitcom that has a theme song that begins, "Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale...."

What is Gilligan's Island?

200

While most courts have "judges," the USSC (and ONLY the USSC) has these.

What are "justices"?

300

This is the name given to an order by a court to send a case to an inferior court for further consideration.

What is a remand?

400

This is the term used to describe the resolution of a constitutional question by looking at the language of the constitution and what the authors understood the words to mean at the time they were written.

What is judicial restraint/originalism/strict construction (all the same thing for our purposes)?

500

This is the name given to a brief filed by a non-litigant that is intended to persuade the court in favor of one of the litigant's position.

What is an amicus curiae (or friend of the court) brief?

Mandarin Chinese

100

This is a reason why the USSC may grant cert.

What is a split among circuit courts (or case is particularly important -- affects lots of people, involves an issue that the USSC is best to decide (like Bush v. Gore))?

200

這被中國人視為有史以來最偉大的發明。

What is the ball of twine in Cawker City, KS?

300

這就是約翰·馬歇爾（John Marshall）認為的最大遺憾。

What is not seeing the world's largest ball of twine in Cawker City, KS?

400

This is the type of jx when a case may be heard in either state or federal court.

What is concurrent jx?

500

This is required in order to satisfy the requirements for diversity jx.

What are (1) parties from different states and (2) at least $75,000 in dispute?