Civics Chapter Seven Vocabulary

a court order requiring someone to appear in court

• caseload

• subpoena

• writ of certiorari

• brief

the authority to hear a case appealed from a lower court

• appellate jurisdiction

• exclusive jurisdiction

• original jurisdiction

• jurisdiction

a statement written by a justice who votes with the majority but for different reasons

• concurring opinion

• dissenting opinion

• judicial review

• unanimous opinion

a court's calendar

• brief

• precedent

• litigant

• docket

an order from a higher court to see the records from a lower court case

• subpoena

• writ of certiorari

• dissenting opinion

• judicial review

a legal ruling that is used as a basis for a decision in a later, similar case

• litigant

• opinion

• stare decisis

• precedent

the authority to hear cases for the first time

• appellate jurisdiction

• jurisdiction

• exclusive jurisdiction

• original jurisdiction

the practice of using earlier rulings as a basis for deciding cases

• stare decisis

• appellate jurisdiction

• judicial review

• jurisdiction

allowed by the United States Constitution

• jurisdiction

• unanimous opinion

• constitutional

• litigant

a written document explaining one side of a case

• brief

• tenure

• caseload

• docket