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THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM
Chapter 5 – The Judicial Branch
LIKE…CASES INVOLVING
• THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND ITS OFFICIALS
• FOREIGN AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS, OR CONSULS• 2 OR MORE STATES
• CITIZENS OF DIFFERENT STATES• A STATE OR ITS CITIZENS AND A
FOREIGN GOVT. OR ITS CITIZENS
WHAT THE CASE IS ABOUT CAN ALSO PUT IT UNDER FEDERAL JURISDICITON
•CASES INVOLVING THE CONSTITUTION
•CASES INVOLVING LAWS AND TREATIES OF THE U.S.
•CASES INVOLVING ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME
LAWS
THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS WAS SET UP IN
1891 TO RELIEVE THE
SUPREME COURT
FROM HEARING ALL APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURTS
AND AT THE HIGHEST
LEVEL OF THE FEDERAL COURT
SYSTEM...
The U.S. Supreme Court
John Roberts
Antonin Scalia
Anthony Kennedy
Clarence Thomas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen Breyer
Samuel Alito
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
THESE ARE CASES INVOLVING LEGAL
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AMBASSADORS OF FOREIGN NATIONS.
OR
CASES IN WHICH ANY OF THE 50 STATES ARE A
PARTY
IT USUALLY CHOOSES CASES INVOLVING
BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL
PRINCIPLES
OR
TO ISSUES ON WHICH
COURTS OF APPEALS
IN DIFFERENT CIRCUITS
HAVE REACHED
CONFLICTING DECISIONS