Structure of the Court System
This is when a district court has the ability to make the initial ruling on a case.
What is original jurisdiction?
These courts aim to find the truth by hearing witnesses and reviewing evidence.
A case where someone sues someone else over a disagreement is this type of case.
What is a civil case?
These first 10 amendments protect individual freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the number of justices that serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is 9?
This is the federal court that hears the most cases.
What are district courts?
This kind of jurisdiction allows courts to hear a case for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
This party is the government in a criminal trial.
What is a prosecutor?
What are Speech, Press, Petition, Religion, Assembly?
The power to determine the constitutionality of laws is known as this.
What is judicial review?
These courts handle appeals and are staffed by panels of judges instead of juries.
What are Appellate Courts (Court of Appeals)?
These courts do not have juries or accept new evidence when they are looking at a case for a second time.
What are appellate courts?
This legal helper is appointed to defendants who cannot afford a lawyer.
What is a public defender?
The government cannot create a national religion because of this clause.
What is the Establishment Clause?
These are the 3 types of Supreme Court Opinions.
This court hears the fewest number of cases and selects which cases to take using the “rule of four.”
What is the Supreme Court?
This type of opinion is written by a justice who agrees with the majority but has different reasoning.
What is a concurring opinion?
This process resolves most criminal cases without going to trial.
What is a plea bargain?
These rights must be read to suspects, including the right to remain silent.
What are Miranda Rights?
Justices are appointed by the President and must be confirmed by this group.
Who is the Senate?
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in this type of case involving parties.
Cases involving a state or the U.S. government as a party
This is the number of total appellate courts in the US.
What is 13?
This type of case would involve someone suing over free speech rights.
What is a civil case?
This clause of the 14th Amendment ensures protections are applied fairly by the states.
What is the Due Process Clause?
What is a concurring opinion?