The Constitution + Amendments
When you ask a higher court to hear your case and review the decision made, you're filing this.
What is an appeal?
To file suit in a federal court for a matter usually regulated by state law, you have to have this kind of jurisdiction among the parties.
What is diversity jurisdiction?
This is the number of justices on the Supreme Court of the United States.
What is nine?
In this case, the court held that it is a violation of a citizen's right to due process for an agency to revoke government aid without a pre-termination evidentiary hearing.
What is Goldberg v. Kelly?
This amendment guarantees your right to federal due process.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
When you ask the court to drop a case, you are filing this type of motion.
What is a motion to dismiss?
This type of jurisdiction allows federal courts to hear civil cases that arise under the Constitution and other sources of federal law.
What is Federal Question Jurisdiction?
This amendment prohibits states from depriving you of your right to due process.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This type of jurisdiction exists when multiple courts have the authority to hear a case.
What is concurrent jurisdiction?
This is the motion you would file when asking a court to rule in your favor without a full trial as there are no disputed facts and the judgement should clearly go one way as a matter of law.
What is a motion for summary judgement?
A Richmond law student who grew up in Maryland but intends to move to NYC after graduating is domiciled here.
In this case, the court ruled that a possible constitutional challenge to an anticipated defense is not grounds to file suit in federal court under federal question jurisdiction--- to file in federal court on these grounds, there must be an active federal "ingredient" at the time of filing.
What is Louisville & Nashville Road Company v. Mottley?
Section 2 of this Article of the Constitution grants jurisdiction over all cases of federal questions to the federal district courts.
What is Article III?
If you want to have your case removed to Federal Court, you must file it before this step of the legal process.
What is trial?
As Professor Norris loves to say, federal courts are courts of this jurisdiction.
What is Limited Subject Matter Jurisdiction?