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Does the US Supreme Court hear mostly original or appellate jurisdiction cases?
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∙ 14y ago
Most cases reach the US Supreme Court under its appellate jurisdiction. The only cases the Court currently hears under original jurisdiction involve disputes between the states, which accounts for only a tiny portion of its caseload.
For more information, see Related Questions, below.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 13y agoUnder Article III of the Constitution, the US Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over two classes of cases:
- Disputes between the states (28 USC § 1251) (exclusive)
- Cases affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls (shared)
The Supreme Court has exclusive original jurisdiction over disputes between the states, and is the only US court that may hear these cases. The Court shares jurisdiction over cases affecting ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls with the US District Court. US District Courts are currently required to try these cases.
The Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over all other cases that involve questions of federal or constitutional law. These are called "federal question" cases, and may originate from either state or federal courts, although most are appealed to the Supreme Court from the US Court of Appeals Circuit Courts.
On occasion, federal question cases may be sent on direct or expedited appeal from US District Courts, bypassing the US Courts of Appeals), generally because it involves a high-ranking federal official or involves challenged legislation in which Congress has specified an expedited appeals process.
One exception are any types of dispute or action where Congress has stripped jurisdiction from the Supreme Court; for example, when Congress, under the Bush Administration, denied the Court's ability to consider writs of habeas corpus from Guantanamo detainees (this legislation has since been declared unconstitutional because the detainees were being denied due process).
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∙ 14y agoThe US Supreme Court hears far more cases under appellate jurisdiction than original jurisdiction. At present, the only cases the Court hears under original jurisdiction are disputes between the states, which accounts for less than 1% of the Supreme Court's docket.
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∙ 9y agoOriginal jurisdiction is the first court that heard a case. Before a case makes it to the Supreme Court, it usually goes through at least one layer of the appellate court system.
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∙ 10y agomost cases are decided by supreme court as a result of its original jurisdiction.
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What is the difference between magistrate's court and high court?
The term is mostly found in texts originated in India, where the Apex Court stands for the Indian Supreme Court. Most other countries use the term "Supreme Court," although there may be variations in some places. In the United States, the high court is called the Supreme Court of the United States, but is more commonly referred to as the US Supreme Court. Both Apex and Supreme typically refer to a government body's highest court of appeals. A court that have high ranking in a country is called supreme court indian supreme court is sometimes called apex court
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Jurisdiction
Which of these is a case where the original jurisdiction is the federal courts?
United States District CourtsThe country is divided into many federal judicial "districts" each with its own US District Court and panel of judges. Any cases emanating from lower courts within the district would begin with that particular "District Court" and then, if necessary, proceed to the US Court of Appeals for [x] Circuit (whatever Circuit the particularly District Court happens to be in). The court with "original jurisdiction" is a trial court, the entry point into the judiciary. For cases of general jurisdiction, the United States District Courts have original jurisdiction over most cases. There are also "special" or "limited subject matter" jurisdiction courts, such as US Tax Court and US Bankruptcy Court that fall under the District Court umbrella (there are many limited subject matter courts that are not part of the District Court system, but these probably hear fewer cases each year). The US Supreme Court also hears a limited number of cases under original jurisdiction, mostly disputes between the states.
Is a cube a pyramid?
The Constitution and federal statutes divide the Supreme Court's jurisdiction into two main categories: original jurisdiction (the power to hear cases as an initial matter) and jurisdiction(the power to hear cases on appeal from lower federal courts or from state courts). The original jurisdiction, which includes suits between states and actions against ambassadors, is rarely invoked. Cases heard in original jurisdiction come to the Court directly, and its decision is beyond further appeal. While original jurisdiction now consumes a small fraction of the Court's time and resources, it is still part of the Court's regular appellate-jurisdiction. The Court hears between one and five original cases each year, partly to avoid allowing its original jurisdiction to fall into desuetudebut mostly because of the need to decide real controversies between states, usually over boundary disputes.The most momentous case ever decided by the Supreme Court, marbury-v-madison(1803), which established the Court's power of constitutional review over acts of Congress, was a case that came to the Court in original jurisdiction.However, it is the appellatejurisdiction of the Supreme Court that is central to its modern function in the American legal and constitutional system. Until recent times, appeals to the Court were of two types: "mandatory appeals" (also called "appeals by right") and "discretionary appeals." Mandatory appeals were appeals from lower federal court decisions or from high state appeals courts that the Supreme Court was required by statute to hear if certain factors were present in the lower court's decisions. However, as the caseloadof the High Court continued to grow, this avenue of appeal came under increasing criticism especially from members of the Court itself. Many mandatory appeals raised inconsequential issues that wasted the Court's valuable time. These were often disposed of summarily and, therefore, had little precedentialvalue for the development of the law. As a result, in 1988 Congress enacted reform legislation that essentially gave to the Court virtually complete control over its own docket so that today most cases come to the Court through the avenue of discretionary appeals via a writ of certiorari(or "cert"). The Court receives nearly eight thousand certpetitions each year. If at least four of the nine Supreme Court justices believe a case merits hearing, the Court will "grant cert" and schedule the case for full briefing and oral argument. The decision whether to grant or deny a cert petition is wholly discretionary with special attention given to resolving conflicts among the federal appellate-court-1of appeals, federal district courts, and/or state-courtcourts on important legal principles or issues of federal law.In recent years, partly as a result of these changes, the Court now decides fewer than one hundred cases each appellate-jurisdiction. If the Court declines to hear a case ("cert denied"), the rule is that the lower court decision is allowed to stand but denial of cert is not to be interpreted as having been approved by the Supreme Court; it has no precedential value beyond the jurisdiction of the lower court itself.Direct appeals of district court decisions have become less frequent than in the past. They usually now occur only in matters where such direct review is required by statute in special areas such as those covered by the federal voting-rights-act-of-1965-1. In extremely rare cases, a United States court of appeals may certify an issue of great public importance for immediate review by the Supreme Court. Consideration of certified questions of this kind is mandatory, but a variety of technical grounds allow the court to dismiss the certification as improper. Unlike appeals and cert petitions, the circuit court alone, and not the parties, decides when an issue deserves to be certified.While we normally associate the Supreme Court with constitutional adjudication, it is important to recognize that the Court plays an equally important role as the final avenue of appeal in cases of federal statutory interpretation. Thus, while the Court's constitutional decisions are beyond further review and can only be modified by an amendment to the Constitution-a process that has occurred fewer than half a dozen times in American history-statutory decisions are subject to review and modification by Congress. For example, if the Environmental Protection Agency (appellate-jurisdiction) decides that carbon-dioxide-1is a polluting gas subject to regulation under the federal Clean Air Act, and the issue is then appealed, were the Court to decide that the environmental-protection-agencywrongly interpreted the act, Congress has the power to override the Court's decision by amending the act to include carbon dioxide as a pollutant.The other major category of cases considered by the Supreme Court under its appellate jurisdiction consists of state court decisions. Although the Constitution does not expressly grant the Supreme Court the power to review state court decisions, from the birth of the republic many believed that such oversight was necessary to ensure the supremacy and uniformity of federal law. This power, which potentially threatens federal court domination over the states, has been strictly circumscribed to accommodate dictates of federalism. Statutes limit review of state court decisions to federal questions decided in final judgments of the state's highest state tribunal. Additionally, if a state decision is sustained by adequate nonfederal grounds-that is, if the result is entirely supportable on the basis of purely state‐law holdings adopted by the state court-under the doctrine of "adequate and independent state grounds" the Supreme Court may not hear the case even to review any federal‐law determination. If it is unclear which basis the state court relied upon, the Court will assume that the decision turned on federal law and may assert jurisdiction. These requirement ensure that scarce federal judicial resources are not spent in issuing essentially advisory opinions. It also makes clear that in matters of pure state law, the Supreme Court is not higher than any state's highest appellate court.In exercising its appellate powers, the Court has subjected itself to a number of internal constraints. article-iiiIII declares that the federal courts will only hear cases-and-controversiesThe Court has interpreted this language to require that the federal courts will only consider real legal disputes. This approach has given rise to a number of so‐called doctrines of justiciability-suchas the requirement that parties to lawsuits have "standing," that cases must be "ripe" and not "moot," and that the courts will not, in their discretion, decide nonjusticiable political-questionquestions, or offer advisory-opinion-forexample, to the Congress when it is considering the constitutionality of proposed legislation. In addition to these internal constraints, from time to time the Court has had to confront external political forces that threatened to curb its appellate powers. The most famous example of this was President Franklin D. franklin-d-rooseveltplan in 1937 to pack the Court with justices that would rule more favorably on new-dealDeal legislation. In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, proposals were made in Congress to curb the Court's power to hear cases involving prayer in public schools, integration of racially segregated schools, and state abortion laws. None of these proposals came to fruition, but their effect has been to remind the members of the Court that the issues it often decides are in the vortex of American political life, and that the Court's great powers of appellate-reviewmust be managed and applied with wisdom and circumspectionRead more: appellate-jurisdiction
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Mostly from plants.
How does the cases reach the supreme court?
There are two ways a case can reach the Supreme Court.The first way is by far the most common: A case is first heard by a trial court. If one of the parties doesn't like the outcome, they appeal. The case is then heard by an appeals court, who has the power to overturn the decision of the trial court. The first appeal is a "gimme" - the appeals court hears everyone's appeal. If one of the parties STILL doesn't like the outcome, they can try to appeal again. The Supreme Court, however, does not have to accept every appeal. To appeal to the Supreme Court, you have to write a "petition for certiorari." If they accept your case, we say that the Supreme Court has "granted cert."The second way is very rare: the Constitution gives the supreme court "original" jurisdiction over a narrow class of cases (mostly cases between states or involving ambassadors.) This means that if a case is of that type, the Supreme Court can take it directly, without any trial court. The court almost never accepts a case this way.
Which Amendment first overturned a US Supreme Court decision?
The Eleventh Amendment revoked the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction over conflicts between a state and citizens of another state. This change was made in response to the decision in Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 (1793), in which the Court declared the states lacked sovereign immunity against being sued in equity cases (mostly over land disputes), and made a large award to Chisholm against the state of Georgia.The States rightly assumed this precedent could quickly send them into bankruptcy, and petitioned Congress to amend the Constitution for their protection. The Eleventh Amendment now provides for diversity jurisdiction in the District Court, meaning the lower courts in the state being sued have original jurisdiction over these disputes.Eleventh Amendment"The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state."For more information, see Related Questions, below.
How many cases did the US Supreme Court hear in the 1972-1973 Term?
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How many state and local laws has the supreme court overturned since 1946?
There is no specific frequency pattern to indicate how often the US Supreme Court overturns legislation. Some Courts, such as the one seated during President Franklin Roosevelt's first two terms of office, overturned quite a bit of legislation; other Courts have been more restrained. According to the GPO (Government Printing Office Database) the US Supreme Court overturned 158 Acts of Congress between 1789-2002, the most recent year for which information is available.
Are supra shoes real or not?
Some are real. Some are fake. mostly are original.
What kind of cases does supreme court accept?
Ones concerning the constitution, federal law, and 2 or more states, mostly
