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Cass Gilbert, architect of the US Supreme Court Building, designed the Neoclassical building to reflect majestic Roman design. The sixteen marble columns and eight pilasters supporting the pediment are a variant of the classic Corinthian style, and are based on Roman mathematical principles of scale and proportion.
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How many columns have the Parthenon?
The Parthenon had a total of 69 columns. There were 46 outer columns and 23 inner columns.
What is an ancillary building?
An ancillary building is any building that is used for storage or machinery near a main structure. An ancillary building is a support structure of some kind.
What kind of math was used in building the Parthenon?
golden ratio
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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
In what kind of building will you find the 15 x 29 ft. mural created for the husband of Beatrice d'Este?
The mural is the last supper
What kind of judges does the supreme court have?
They are called supreme court justice
What kind of columns adorn the capitol building?
Ionic
The Supreme Court is mainly what kind of court?
In most cases, supreme courts are final appellate courts.
What kind of services does the judicial system have?
U.S Supreme Court.
What are the release dates for The Supreme Court - 2007 A New Kind of Justice 1-2?
The Supreme Court - 2007 A New Kind of Justice 1-2 was released on: USA: 31 January 2007
Can there be an appeal from a federal court?
The highest court is the Supreme Court, but not all cases can be appealed to the Supreme Court; it depends what kind of legal issues are involved. Otherwise, the case can be appealed to a Federal Appeal Court. If you can afford the legal fees, of course.
Appellate jurisdiction means that the Supreme Court .?
Having appellate jurisdiction means that the Supreme Court hears cases that have been in trial before. A majority of cases that the Supreme Court hear are either controversial, or some kind of trial error took place in a prior court.
What kind of courts report to the Supreme Court?
The US Supreme Court is head of the Judicial Branch of government. The "inferior" courts in this branch are:US District CourtsUS Court of International TradeUS Court of Appeals Circuit Courts
When the supreme court accepts a case for review it places it on what kind of calendar?
Docket
When does the US Supreme Court get the last say and in what kind of cases does the US Supreme Court not have the last say?
The Supreme Court always has the last say for cases that fall under its jurisdiction. The Court no longer has mandatory jurisdiction and may exercise full discretion over which cases it hears. The decision of the Court is final, unless modified by the Court itself or by constitutional amendment.
The US Supreme Court is what kind of branch?
The US Supreme Court is an Article III (constitutional) court, and the highest appellate court for federal question jurisdiction, or cases involving issues related to the US Constitution, federal law, or treaties of the United States.The Supreme Court also has exclusive original jurisdiction (is the only trial court) for disputes between the states.
The supreame courts usually what kind of cases?
There is no telling which case or what kind of a case the Supreme Court will hear. If a case is simple, it never will get to the Supreme Court. Cases that reach the Supreme Court have gone through one or more appeals processes. Sometimes a appeal reaches the Supreme Court when a federal court of appeals has made a ruling different from another federal court of appeals. In that case, the supreme court is asked to certify an issue. That is a fancy term meaning to play referee. The Supreme Court certifies an issue when it takes up an issue where district courts of appeal have made different rulings concerning the application of the same law. (Sometimes the Supreme Court refuses to take up the issue. In that case it simply states, "Cert. Denied.") Normally, all cases that reach the Supreme Court have come from the Federal Courts of Appeal or the Highest State Court. However, the Supreme Court reserves the right to sit as a court of original jurisdiction. The last time the Supreme Court granted a writ of Habeas Corpus was 1924. It retains that right. I doubt if any member on the Supreme Court has any idea under what conditions that would happen. Still, it retains that right.
