BL: Appellate Courts

Lawyers don’t have to file any kind of paperwork at the Court of Appeals.

• TRUE 
• FALSE

To ask the Supreme Court to take your case, you file a petition

• TRUE
• FALSE

A panel of three judges in the Court of Appeals is called an “en banc” panel.

• TRUE
• FALSE

Higher courts use totally different factors to judge a case than the lower court used.

• TRUE
• FALSE

There are nine justices on the Supreme Court.

• TRUE
• FALSE

The Court of Appeals only hears a case en banc in very important situations.

• TRUE
• FALSE

In an oral argument, the lawyers yell at each other and while the judges listen.

• TRUE
• FALSE

The Court of Appeals must take every case appealed to it.

• TRUE
• FALSE

A precedent case acts like a law for future cases with very similar facts.

• TRUE
• FASLE

The Supreme Court must take every case appealed to it.

• TRUE
• FASLE