Judicial Notes

Learning Targets

1) What is the judicial branch job?

2) What powers do they have?

3) What is the difference between state and Federal court?

Notes

1) The Judicial branch’s job is to . . . .

2) Who makes up the judicial branch?

3) What are the two court systems?

4) Level of Court System

5) Which court system deals with cases about laws that apply to the whole United States?

______: Deals with disputes about constitution, immigration, and law

6) Which court system deals with cases about state laws?

______: Deals with disputes about property, accidents, or certain crimes

7) Is it true or false that federal and state cases start in different courts

8) If Hawaii’s courts deal with Hawaii’s laws, then Minnesota’s courts deal with laws of what state? 9) Hawaii has its very own system of ______.

10) Every state has at least one of what kind of federal court?

11) What is the next highest federal court above the District Court?

12) The U.S. Court of Appeals is divided into regions that are called what?

13) Each circuit has at least how many Courts of Appeals?

14) Where is the U.S. Supreme Court located?

15) What does the Court of Appeals do that the Supreme Court won’t do?

16) The Supreme Court’s power to choose the cases it hears is called what?

17) When two circuits disagree, it is called a circuit ______.

18) Every state’s courts are free to make their own ______.

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