State and Federal Courts Quiz

What is the highest court in the Texas state system for civil matters?

• Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

• Texas Supreme Court

• Texas District Court

• Texas Court of Appeals

What is the term used when a lawsuit is brought too late or subsequent events have laid the matter to rest?

• Moot

• Quasi-judicial

• Remanded

• Standing

Which court is the ultimate arbiter of federal law?

• United States District Court

• Texas Supreme Court

• Texas Court of Appeals

• United States Supreme Court

What is the term for the constitutionally guaranteed right to fair notice, a fair hearing, and fair procedures?

• Civil Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Procedural Due Process

• Substantive Due Process

What does the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution state?

• State law is supreme over federal law

• Federal law is supreme over state law

• State courts can overrule federal courts

• Federal courts can issue advisory opinions

What is the term for a person's actual legal interest in the matter, which is the subject of the litigation?

• Quasi-judicial

• Standing

• Moot

• Remanded

Which court is named in the United States Constitution?

• United States District Court

• United States Court of Appeals

• Supreme Court

• Texas Supreme Court

What is the term for an enforceable agreement between parties who can make such agreements?

• Quasi-judicial

• Injunction

• Contract

• Statute

What is the term for the power of a court to take a case and must dismiss it for lack of jurisdiction?

• Procedural Due Process

• Concurrent jurisdiction

• Diversity jurisdiction

• Quasi-judicial authority

What does Amendment X to the United States Constitution state?

• Federal law is supreme over state law

• The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court

• The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution are reserved to the States or the people

• The right to privacy is a Substantive Due Process right