Exam 2: The Court Systems

Limitations on the kinds of disputes a court may resolve come from:

If a defendant fails to appear in court after receiving a summons, the court will order that a default judgment be entered against that defendant.

Although states are free to develop their own procedural rules, many have adopted:

Sometimes, in the U.S. courts of appeals, all the active judges in a circuit will hear a case. This is called:

In rem jurisdiction gives state courts jurisdiction to:

When resolving conflict-of-law problems some courts have determined that the law of the state having the "most significant" interest should apply. Suppose an airplane crashes in South Carolina, injuring all four persons aboard. If the airplane manufacturer is in Texas, the plane left from Texas to go to Virginia, and all four of the injured parties are from Texas, an attorney for the pilot of the plane, hoping to keep the case in Texas, should argue that:

Right of removal allows:

Federal courts have limited jurisdiction and are empowered to hear only those cases within the judicial power of the United States.

Which of the following could be subject to in rem jurisdiction:

The Supreme Court:

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 since the Maine seller had no physical presence in Idaho it was not subject to Idaho court jurisdiction.

By constitutional rules of fairness, there may be no dollar limit, upper or lower, set on the value of cases that must be heard by trial courts.

Several times over the years, Congress has punished federal courts for decisions Congress did not like by cutting the salary of judges.

____ judges are the only federal judges not appointed by the President.

Not counting the Federal Circuit, there are ____ geographically-based U.S. circuit courts of appeals.

State courts, in contrast to federal courts, are known as court of limited jurisdiction.

State courts such as municipal courts or probate courts are called courts of:

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has jurisdiction:

In a case involving state law that could be tried in state court, but that has been moved to federal court. The federal court will:

Federal crimes, bankruptcy, patents and copyrights are all examples of: