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The person against whom a file is complaint
What is a Defendant?
100
Who provides security and police protection at federal courthouses?
What are Marshals?
100
The top of the Federal court system
The Supreme Court?
100
Panels of citizens
What are grand juries?
100
Agree with the overall conclusion in the case but stress some different or additional legal reasoning
What are concurring opinions?
200
The authority to decide a case?
What is Jurisdiction?
200
When you have sole right over a case
What is Exclusive Jurisdiction?
200
Court is under the Supreme court
What are Courts of Appeals?
200
A legal process by which persons who cannot pay money that owe others can receive court protection and assistance is setting their financial problems
What is Bankruptcy?
200
What are opinions that don't have direct legal impact on the case?
What are Dissenting opinions?
300
A person who files an appeal
Who is a Appellant?
300
A minor criminal case punishable by one year or less?
What is a misdemeanor?
300
What court is under the Court of Appeals
What are District and other courts?
300
Appointed by the panel of the judges who make up the court of appeals
What are Public Defenders?
300
How many members are in the supreme court?
9
400
The list of cases heard by the court?
What is a Docket?
400
The person making the legal complaint?
What is a Plantiff?
400
Appointed by the panel of the judges who make up the court of appeals
What are public defenders?
400
What are panel reviews the trial court record and reads written arguments?
What are Briefs?
400
How many of the supreme court are women?
3
500
What is an order seeking review of the lower court case?
Writ of Certiorari
500
A sovereign nation that's immune from being sued unless it agrees to be sued?
What is Sovereign Immunity?
500
An earlier court decision that guides judges’ decisions in later cases
What is a precedent?
500
When was the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
1896