Exam 3: Courts, Jurisdiction, and Administrative Agencies

Describe the need for forum-selection and choice-of-law clauses.

Decisions of highest state courts are final unless a question of law is involved that is appealable to the U.S.Supreme Court.

A petitioner must file a petition for certiorari,asking the Supreme Court to hear the case.

In the U.S.Supreme Court,if all the justices voting agree as to the outcome and reasoning used to decide a case,it is a ________ decision.

The ________ established by Congress have limited jurisdiction.

The decisions handed down by the general jurisdiction trial courts are appealable to an intermediate appellate court or the state supreme court.