Exam 2: The Court Systems

Magistrates are:

Trial courts at both the federal and state level are called courts of original jurisdiction.

If a party wishes to appeal from a lower court decision in a state court, which of the following is true about the right of appeal:

The Missouri System for choosing state judges:

Under in rem jurisdiction, a court has power over the real (physical) property of a defendant but not financial assets of a defendant.

Which of the following is true about the federal appeals courts?

A plaintiff who wants to bring a lawsuit must go to a court that has subject matter jurisdiction and jurisdiction over the defendant.

Both state and federal court systems have lower courts of ____, where disputes are first brought and tried.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were developed by an advisory committee appointed by:

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

In Blimka v. My Web Wholesalers, which involved a dispute between an Idaho resident who ordered jeans from a Maine website-based seller, the Idaho court held that the Maine seller was subject to Idaho court jurisdiction under the state long-arm statute.

The federal court system is a(n) ____ system:

Service of process (summons) is traditionally achieved by:

The party bringing a lawsuit must choose a court with:

A suit involving a dispute for $45,000 over a contract signed in California under California law with parties from two different states would be tried in a California court using California law.

The party claiming to have suffered an injury that the law can remedy is:

Federal judges can retire at age 70 but then keep working as a judge.

In Erie v. Tompkins, where Tompkins was hit by a New York train in Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court held that the matter must be tried under federal law because the law of New York and Pennsylvania were in conflict.

The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure govern:

In the American court system: