District and Appeals
Number of district courts
94
Number of Justices are in the Supreme Court
What are 9 judges?
The number of US States
What are 50 states?
Marbury v. Madison
What is establishing judicial review?
How many levels of federal courts are there?
3
This is a common legal system that holds previous judicial decisions as an influence for current and future judicial decisions.
What is a precedent?
Goes to this if a district court judgment is not liked
What is an Appeals Court?
Lead Judge
Who is the Chief Justice?
Cases heard in state courts
What are:
Cases concerning laws passed by state legislature or local authorities,
Most family law cases, personal injury suits, contract disputes, traffic violations, and
Criminal cases.?
Plessy v. Ferguson
What is establishing "Separate but equal"?
Who appoints all federal judges?
the President
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people are found in this amendment in the US Constitution
What is the X Amendment (US Constitution)?
The number of appeals court are there
What are 13 appeals court?
Tenure of a Supreme Court Judge
Where is Good Behavior tenure?
Cases heard in federal courts
What are:
The United States is a party,
The case involves violations of the U.S. Constitution, treaties or federal laws,
It is a legal dispute between citizens of different states or foreign citizens,
It is a bankruptcy, copyright, patent and maritime law case, or
It’s a criminal matter listed in the U.S. Code.?
McCulloch v. Maryland
What is to establish a national bank created by Congress?
A law enacted by a municipal body
What is an ordinance law?
A case which may be heard in a District Court
any reasonable answer
the common litigation tribunals of the United States federal court system
Main jobs of the Supreme Court
What are hearing appealed cases from lower courts and hearing cases involving Constitutional issues?
What does Federal mean?
whole country
Brown v. Board of Education
What is overturned "Separate but Equal"?
A court has this and are able to hear a case before another court
What is Original Jurisdiction?
What is statutory law?
Location of the District courts
what is across the USA?
Describe a Supreme Court case
Any will suffice
Trespassing and kidnapping jurisdiction
What is a federal crime?
What is protecting a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction?
The location of the Judicial Branch in the US Constitution
What is Article III?
The location of the Judicial Branch in the Texas Constitution
What is the V Article?
After a district court rules on a case which court can a defended appeal their case too
What is an Appellate court or U.S court of Appeals
The highest court in the United States
What is the US Supreme Court?
Traffic violations and misdemeanors in this court jurisdiction
What are state courts?
Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurant
What is an example of a tort reform case?
This clause establishes the Constitution and federal laws as the “supreme Law of the Land,” above state laws
What is the Supremacy Clause (Article VI Clause 2)?
The mode of selection for TX judicial judges
What is a partisan election?