Charlie Brown
This is the authority of a court to hear a case.
What is jurisdiction?
This is the term used to refer to gathering information through depositions and interrogatories before a trial.
What is "discovery"?
This is what you must file if you want the Supreme Court to hear your case.
What is a petition for a writ of certiorari?
This is the name of the person who represents the U.S. in any argument before the SCOTUS?
What is the "Solicitor General"?
These are the two things needed for "diversity jurisdiction."
What are citizens from different states and at least $75,000 in dispute?
A trial court has ____ jurisdiction while an appeals court has ____ jurisdiction.
What are original and appellate?
This is the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that would hear an appeal from the Federal District Court in Mobile?
This is the "rule of 4."
What is the Supreme Court rule that says at least 4 Justices must grant a petition for cert (i.e., vote to hear an appeal) before the Court will hear the case?
This is the #1 reason why the SCOTUS may decide to hear an appeal.
What is a split in the circuits?
This is the term used when the Supreme Court sends a case back down to a lower court for further proceedings.
What is "remand"?
This refers to the type of jurisdiction when either a federal court or a state court could hear a case.
What is concurrent jurisdiction? (As opposed to exclusive jx.)
This is the name of the Grinch's dog.
What is Max?
This is a reason why we have the dual court system.
What is theoretical (i.e., federal courts to interpret federal law) and practical (to avoid "home cooking")?
This is the name of the gun that the kid is craving in the movie.
What is a Red Ryder BB gun?
This is the term used to refer to a filing made by a non-party that wants to persuade the court to rule a certain way.
What is an amicus curiae brief?
This is required to get a case heard by a federal district court.
What is either (a) a federal question (i.e., a question about the Constitution or federal law) or (b) diversity (parties from different states and at least $75,000 in dispute)?
These are two key differences between a trial court and an appellate court.
What are (1) at the trial court level, parties engage in "discovery" whereas at the appellate level they do not; and (2) at the trial court level, you can have a jury trial whereas you cannot on appeal?
This is what we call a court that is created to help Congress execute a power vested in it.
What is an "Article I" court?
This is one way in which the independence of the courts is protected.
What are (a) judges are appointed and not elected, (b) they serve for life, (c) their salaries can't be reduced, (d) the USSC has complete control over which cases it hears on appeal, and (e) no lobbying of a judge other than through public filings?
This is arguably the worst movie ever.
What is Elf?
This is the name of the girl that had a crush on Charlie Brown.
Who is Peppermint Patty?
This is the name of the case that established the principle of "judicial review".
This is the name of the character played by Jimmy Stewart in the movie.
Who is George Bailey?
This is the name of the list of cases and the dates on which they are scheduled to go to trial.
What is a docket?
This is the percentage of cert petitions that the Supreme Court typically will grant in a given term.
What is about 1 percent?