Supreme Court
Number of Justices
What is nine?
Case that established judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The authority of a court to hear and decide cases is known as this.
What is jurisdiction?
The general name for the courts where trials are held, evidence is presented, and lawsuits begin.
What are district courts?
A case involving a dispute between private parties is a case of this type.
What is a civil case?
Leader of the Supreme Court
Who is the Chief Justice?
Case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Power of the appeals court to review decisions made in lower courts.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
If you appeal a case, you are attempting to take it to this level of court.
What is an appellate or appeals court?
A judge's detailed explanation of the legal thinking behind the court's decision.
What is an opinion?
A Supreme Court justice's tenure.
Who has a tenure of life, or until they retire or are impeached?
Upheld the "separate but equal" doctorine.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
When a court's decision provides a model for future, similar cases to base their decisions on.
What is precedent?
When an appeals court sends a case back to a lower court to be re-tried, it has done this to the case.
What is remanding?
If a justice disagrees with the majority decision in a case, they will write one of these opinions.
What is a dissenting opinion?
Term for the Supreme Court to decide what is constitutional or not.
What is Judicial Review?
Case that ruled that suspects must be read their rights before questioning if their statements are to be used in federal court.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Power that allows federal courts to void acts of Congress the conflict with the constitution.
What is judicial review?
There are 94 of these federal courts across the U.S., serving as the general trial courts.
What are district courts?
This is the name for the group of people that gives the verdict after a trial has taken place.
What is a jury?
The supreme court must do this vote to accept a case.
What is the rule of four?
Established that people accused of serious crimes must be provided a lawyer, even if they can't afford one.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
The ability to hear a case for the first time, which district courts have.
What is original jurisdiction?
Federal courts are typically divided into federal courts and this other main type of court system.
What are state courts?
Handled by Federal District courts for crimes committed on the ocean.
What is maritime law?