Exam 2: The Court Systems

The U.S. Supreme Court:

To obtain appellate review from the U.S. Supreme Court a party must:

Federal courts do not have the judicial power to hear a case involving:

Proper venue has as its basis:

The highest court in the United States is the:

For the Supreme Court to agree to review a case:

Concurrent jurisdiction is when the:

If a dispute may be resolved in a state court only, the state court is said to have:

Federal judges may be impeached for:

Suppose an airplane crashes in Arkansas, injuring four passengers who file suit in South Carolina court. If the plane manufacturer is in Texas, the plane left from Texas to go to Virginia, and all injured parties are from Texas, an attorney for the pilot of the plane, hoping to keep the case in Texas, should argue that, under the conflict-of-laws rules:

In Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, where Tompkins sued a New York company that owned a train that hit him in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court held that:

A summons can be delivered to the defendant by:

With respect to a court, jurisdiction means:

The U.S. Supreme Court is primarily:

Which court(s) in the federal court system uses juries?

Proper venue has as its basis:

The party who is sued in a law suit is the:

Original jurisdiction means power to:

Most federal judges must be both appointed by the President and:

Federal judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.