6th hour March 4 Lesson

March 4th: Review & add to notes

Throughout today's lesson, there are review questions from class yesterday AND there will be new slides to add to your Dual Court notes.

Multiple Choice

What type of jurisdiction does the Federal District Court have?

• Specialized

• Original

• Appellate

• Original & Appellate

Multiple Choice

What type of jurisdiction does the Federal Court of Appeals have?

• Original

• Original & Appellate

• Specialized

• Appellate

Multiple Choice

What type of jurisdiction does the United States Supreme Court have?

• Supreme

• Original & Appellate

• Appellate

• Original

Fill in the Blank

There are __ district courts throughout the U.S.

Multiple Choice

The Federal Court does not have specialized courts like the State Court system has.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Open Ended

Yesterday, we learned that the Federal District Court has original jurisdiction over cases under 2 main categories.

What kind of case or what is a category where the Federal District Court would hear & make a decision.

Multiple Choice

There are times where a case will not go through the State Court system but go directly to the Federal Court.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

Hoss vs. Karole is a lawsuit where one party is from California and the other is from Washington.

This would be an example of what kind of a lawsuit?

• Diversity of Citizenship lawsuit

• U.S. Treaty lawsuit

• District Court lawsuit

• Different location lawsuit

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Multiple Choice

There is an exception to the Diversity of Citizenship lawsuit!

If the lawsuit is under $ __, ___ then a State Court will hear it.

• 75,000

• 50,000

• 25,000

• 65,000

THE FOLLOWING SLIDES NEED TO BE ADDED INTO YOUR DUAL COURT NOTES!!

Multiple Choice

A court of appeals hears new evidence to help decide whether the law was applied correctly the first time or not.

• TRUE

• FALSE

--NEXT SLIDE--

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW THE CIRCUT COURTS ARE DIVIDED UP IN THE U.S.

​IN YOUR NOTES, WRITE DOWN WHAT CIRCUT COURT KANSAS IS IN
:)

​PLEASE WRITE DOWN THE 9 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES NAMES
AND WHICH PRESIDENT APPOINTED THEM!

This last slide links you to the Federal Court of Appeals website!

Read through these 2 sections on the website:
-What are Courts of Appeals?
-What is the Structure of Courts of Appeals?

After reading those sections, come back to this lesson to answer 3 questions and then find something quietly to work on :)

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Multiple Choice

The U.S. Court of Appeals routinely handles more than how many cases each year?

• 50,000

• 100

• 94

• 10,000

Multiple Choice

What percentage of those decisions are appealed to the United State Supreme Court?

• 15%

• 20%

• 10%

• 5%

Multiple Choice

How many regional circuit courts is the U.S. divided into?

• 12

• 14

• 10

• 11