Judges
Supreme Court Cases
Federal Courts
State Courts
Miscellaneous
100
This is the amount of time that a Supreme Court justice serves.
What is lifetime?
100
This case involved and established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
100
This is the only level of federal court that hears cases and reaches a verdict of guilty or not guilty.
What is district?
100
This state court level has the same name as its jurisdiction.
What is appellate?
100
This is how judges in all levels of the state court systems obtain their jobs.
What is election?
200
Justices get their jobs on the Supreme Court by this process.
What is being appointed by the President and approved by the Senate?
200
This case involved flag burning and whether or not it was a form of free speech protected by the first amendment.
What is Texas v. Johnson?
200
The US Military Court of Appeals, the US Tax Court, and Bankruptcy Court are special courts with this type of jurisdiction.
What is original?
200
This level of state courts has original jurisdiction for felonies and civil cases above $10,000.
What is superior?
200
This article of the North Carolina Constitution established the NC Supreme Court
What is Article IV?
300
These are the two ways that justices can lose their job on the Supreme Court.
What is impeachment and resignation?
300
This case addressed illegal search and seizure and the fourth amendment.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
300
The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in these two cases.
What is state v. state and cases involving diplomats?
300
There is no jury in this level of the state court system, only seven justices.
What is supreme?
300
This article of the United States Constitution establishes the SCOTUS.
What is Article III?
400
This is why Supreme Court justices have lifetime terms.
What is to base their rulings solely on the Constitution and not constituents and/or re-election?
400
This case involved students wearing armbands to protest the Vietnam War and whether or not it was a protected form of protest.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
400
This piece of legislation expanded the Supreme Court to nine and established a quorum of six justices.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1869?
400
These two levels of state courts can both decide a guilty or not guilty verdict and issue a sentence.
What are district and superior?
400
To serve on any North Carolina court, a person has to be able to do these two things.
What are vote and practice law?
500
This is how old you would have to be in order to serve as a judge in the North Carolina State Court system.
What is twenty-one?
500
This case declared that "separate but equal" was constitutional and legalized segregation.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
The three-judge panel in Federal Appellate Courts has the authority to make one of these three decisions on a case.
What is overturn, deny, or remand a case?
500
This level of state court is where a Judge Judy case involving a dispute over $2300 would most likely take place.
What is district?
500
The salary of a Supreme Court justice never does this.
What is change/ get a pay cut?
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