Exam 2: The Court Systems

When a court has power over the person who is the defendant of a lawsuit, it is called:

If a judge shows personal bias toward a party in a case, the judge may not be sued for the bias.

Small claims courts:

The Constitution intends for the judiciary to have:

When authorized by the Judicial Conference of the United States, federal judges may:

In Blimka v. My Web Wholesalers an Idaho resident, Blimka, ordered a large quantity of jeans from My Web, a Maine company that advertised its goods on the Internet. When a dispute arose over the quality of the jeans, Blimka sued My Web in Idaho state court. My Web contended the Idaho court did not have jurisdiction. The Idaho high court held that:

In BancorpSouth Bank v. Hazelwood Logistics Center, where the bank sued Hazelwood and its owners for payment, the defendants claimed the federal district court did not have jurisdiction because of a lack of diversity of citizenship. The appeals court held that:

In the French court system, the top court, cour de cessation:

Subject-matter jurisdiction is:

The federal government does not have the right to appeal involving a court judgment in a civil case.

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

The doctrine that protects judges from suits for damages for judicial acts is called:

State courts of limited or special jurisdiction include:

Congress may change the U.S. Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction, but it cannot:

A writ of certiorari directs a lower court to send up the record of a case for review by the Supreme Court.

There is no right of appeal in a criminal case lost by the government at the district court trial.

If a defendant fails to appear in court after being issued a summons:

When a federal court has exclusive jurisdiction over a matter:

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

According to the Supreme Court in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins, where Tompkins sued a New York company that owned a train that hit him in Pennsylvania, the doctrine of Swift v. Tyson, which held that federal courts exercising jurisdiction on the ground of diversity of citizenship need not, in matters of general jurisprudence, apply [the common law] of the state as declared by its highest court, introduced: