Unit 8: Judicial Branch

Authority to hear and decide a case.

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

• Jurisdiction

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• Judicial Restraint

The sole right to hear a case.

• Jurisdiction

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

• Judicial Review

Jurisdiction held by both state and federal courts

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• Jurisdiction

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

• Concurrent Jurisdiction

Person who makes a legal complaint

• Defendant

• Plaintiff

• Public Defender

• Prosecutor

Person against whom a case is filed

• Public Defender

• Defendant

• Prosecutor

• Plaintiff

Jurisdiction of the court that first hears a case

• Original Jurisdiction

• Concurrent Jurisdiction

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

Concept that judges should interpret the Constitution according to it original meaning

• Judicial Review

• Judicial Activism

• Judicial Persecution

• Judicial Restraint

Holds that judges can adapt the meaning of the Constitution to meet the demands of contemporary realities

• Judicial Review

• Judicial Restraint

• Judicial Prosecution

• Judicial Activism

Previous court ruling

• Judicial Act of 1791

• precedent

• Judicial Act of 1789

• Judicial review

Law that organized the federal court system into district courts, and the Supreme Court

• Judicial Act of 1791

• Judicial Review

• Judicial Act of 1789

• Judicial precedence