Which courts have multiple judges and can affirm/reverse the decision of lower courts and remand (redo) the trial with new information -Correct Answer appellate courts
What is it called in a case where plaintiffs and defendants are citizens of different states -Correct Answer diversity of citize...
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Which courts have multiple judges and can affirm/reverse the decision of lower courts
and remand (redo) the trial with new information -Correct Answer ✔appellate courts
What is it called in a case where plaintiffs and defendants are citizens of different states
-Correct Answer ✔diversity of citizens
How many federal circuit courts are there -Correct Answer ✔13
Which Supreme Court case formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the
united states under Article III of the US constitution -Correct Answer ✔Marbury V
Madison
Cases that have federal jurisdiction due to diversity of citizenship must also have -
Correct Answer ✔amount of controversy over $75,000
The first known set of laws that included both procedural and substantive laws was the -
Correct Answer ✔Code of Hammurabi
The most recently appointed supreme court justice is -Correct Answer ✔Kentaji Brown
In order for a supreme court to hear a case, the person must have a personal stake in
the case known as -Correct Answer ✔standing
Which is NOT a proper response to a complaint -Correct Answer ✔motion for a directed
verdict
When a defense lawyer questions the defense witness -Correct Answer ✔direct
examination
During discovery, lawyers called witnesses to office and asks them questions under
oath and records them in a written -Correct Answer ✔desposition
Schools of Jurisprudence -Correct Answer ✔natural law
positive law
historical school
sociological jurisprudence
legal realism
Natural Law -Correct Answer ✔can be determined through human nature
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Positive law -Correct Answer ✔law based on the dictates of a central political authority
Historical Law -Correct Answer ✔laws should focus on legal principles that have
withstood the test of time
Sociological Jurisprudence -Correct Answer ✔law can and should change to meet new
developments in society
Legal Realism -Correct Answer ✔goes beyond the words of law and focuses on the
minds of officials as they interpret, enforce, and apply laws
Procedural Law -Correct Answer ✔provides machinery by which rights and duties are
enforced
The precedent of stare decisis is part of -Correct Answer ✔case law
stare decisis -Correct Answer ✔holds that courts and judges should honor
"precedent"—or the decisions, rulings, and opinions from prior cases
Probate Court is an example of -Correct Answer ✔special jurisdiction (granting a will,
estates, etc.)
Remedies for breach of contract that are sanctions or damages intended to make the
injured parties "whole" in an financial sense -Correct Answer ✔compensatory damages
The question of which state law applies to a multi-state dispute -Correct Answer
✔conflicts of law
Federal district courts are called -Correct Answer ✔trial courts
In order for the US Supreme court to hear your case, you must file -Correct Answer
✔Petition for Writ of Certiorari
Which amendment includes the due process clause and the equal protection clause -
Correct Answer ✔14th amendment
The bill of rights protections that applies to state and local governments is termed the -
Correct Answer ✔incorporation document
Protections of the 1st amendment -Correct Answer ✔Freedom of:
-Speech
-Press
-Exercise (religion)
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