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Structure and Jurisdiction of the Federal Courts
Getting into the Court and the Supreme court in Action
Gibbons V. Ogden
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Alito and Scalia
100
Most cases that go to the Supreme court start in this type of court
What is the District Court
100
A rule that allows a plaintiff to recover costs from the defendant if the plaintiff wins.
What is Fee Shifting
100
Winner of the Gibbons v. Ogden case
What is Gibbons
100
The numbers in the court decision
What is 7-2
100
Alito was nominated by whom
What is President Bush
200
The Supreme Court picks the cases through this process which allows them to hear any case that they want to hear
What is writ of certiorari
200
Party that initiates suit
What is Plaintiff
200
State that granted Ogden a monopoly
What is New York
200
Writer of the Court decision
What is Chief Justice Roger B Taney
200
Went to Princeton and Yale Law School
What is Alito
300
This common practice often dictates which federal court judges will be appointed
What is Senatorial Courtesy
300
Written statement by an attorney that summarizes a case and the laws and rulings that support it
What is a brief
300
Chief Justice that ruled the case
What is John Marshall
300
The decision was an indirect catalyst for
What is American Civil War
300
Longest serving justice currently on the court
What is Scalia
400
The two branches of lower federal courts
What is Constitutional Court and Legislative Court
400
An issue that the Supreme Court lets the executive or legislative branch handle
What is Political Question
400
Clause in the Constitution that Gibbons used in his defense
What is Commerce
400
____ said it, "it stands first in any list of the worst Supreme Court decisions”?
What is Bernard Schwartz
400
Scalia's college
What is Georgetown University
500
A test that judges go through to test ideological purity
What is a litmus test
500
rule that a citizen cannot sue the government without the government’s consent
What is Sovereign Immunity
500
The result of this case
What is Expansion of federal power
500
True or false : it is universally condemned as the U.S. Supreme Court's worst decision
What is True
500
He ardently rejects the concept of a "living Constitution,"
What is Scalia