Appellate Cases from US Court of Appeals Circuit Courts
The US Supreme Court primarily hears appellate cases involving questions of federal or constitutional law. Most cases arise from the 13 U.S. Court of Appeals Circuits, although the Court also reviews cases involving federal constitutional and legislative issues on appeal from state supreme courts, and on very rare occasions may review cases directly from the District courts, bypassing the Circuit courts altogether.
Civil Liberties comprises the largest block of the Supreme Court's cases.
civil liberties,economic issues, due process of law or federal legislation?
Federal courts may hear civil cases or criminal cases.
State courts hear far more cases than federal courts.
400 million cases are pending in Indian courts.
Courts that hear cases involving young people are known as juvenile courts.
The majority of cases in the US are heard by the various state courts.
They don't. Appeals courts ONLY hear cases appealed to them from lower/inferior courts.
All I can say is it is not State Courts (Sorry GradPoint users)
Courts that have the authority to be the first courts in which most federal cases are heard are known as district courts. These are the trial courts of the federal judiciary system and are responsible for hearing both civil and criminal cases.
District courts hear cases on topics assigned to them by Congress, and federal courts hear cases regarding constitutional law and treaties.
Both criminal and civil cases having to do with the regulations and statutes promulgated and passed into law by THAT state's legislature. State Courts try ONLY cases having to do with violation of THAT particular state's laws.
The United States judiciary comprises the individual state courts as well as the federal courts. Each court has a specified jurisdiction that dictates the type of cases it may hear and/or the area in which the case must have originated. State and federal jurisdictions sometimes overlap.
Easy cases are adjudicated by lower courts. Harder cases are decided by the higher courts.