State court

There is said to be roughly 17,000 courthouses that are operating in the United States. These courts are governmental organizations created to hear specific types of cases depending on the case itself. There are differences between the federal and state courts. Dual court system refers to the federal and state courts separation (Neubauer & Fradella, 2015). The purpose of having the federal and state courts was that the U.S. Constitution wanted the federal government to be limited of their…

Supreme Court is an appellate court and the highest court in the United States (Cheeseman, 2013, p. 41). The jurisdiction or legal ability for the Supreme Court to hear a case is established by Article III, Section II of the Constitution of the United States of America (“About,” n.d.). As established by the Constitution, the Supreme Court has both original jurisdiction (legal ability to hear a case) and appellate jurisdiction which means, it can hear appeals from the highest state courts…

United States courts have seven key types of jurisdiction. The first type of jurisdiction is personal jurisdiction. Personal Jurisdiction is the authority the court has over the person. The second type of jurisdiction is subject matter jurisdiction. Subject Matter Jurisdiction is the authority granted upon a court to hear a particular type of case. The third type of jurisdiction is geographical jurisdiction. Geographical jurisdiction is the authority the court has to hear cases that arise…

he Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court within the hierarchy of the country’s federal courts. The Court was established in accordance to Article III of the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court consists of nine total members, all of whom are nominated by the President at the time, and approved by the Senate. All nine members of the Supreme Court serve their term for life, only leaving when they retire, resign, or are impeached. In theory, the Supreme Court is meant to…

The court structure in the United States is a dual court system. This means that there is a separate federal system and a separate judicial system locally and for each of the states. The United States Supreme Court is the only place where these two systems connect. The courts have jurisdiction which gives them the authority to hear and decide cases. These jurisdictions are composed of the original jurisdiction, which has the authority to hear the case when it is first brought to the courts. The…

Virginia’s state law is forbidding the request of Lee and Burwell Reynolds to allow black juries on their trial. On December 1877, the Reynolds brothers were on trial for killing a white man named, Aaron Shelton. The attorneys of the brothers couldn’t change Judge Treadway’s mind into accepting their request. Until, Alexander Rives, a judge, decided to defend the rights of Lee and Burwell by preventing discrimination towards their race and color. He argued that the Virginia state court has…

The standard for competency was set by the supreme court case Dusky v United States. Dusky v. United States was a supreme court case in which the defendant, Dusky, challenged the ruling in his original case that he was competent to stand trial despite an expert testifying he was not competent. The court overturned his conviction stating that the "record in this case does not sufficiently support the findings of competency to stand trial". The court then ordered a new evaluation, as well as a…

3rd + Possible 4th Paragraph: Supreme Court Rulings The have been plenty of public cases through history about free speech, and what constituted as free speech. There have been some that ended in the protection of the certain act, and some of the cases resulted in the act becoming illegal. One of the most notable cases of an act becoming illegal is Schenck v. United States, which took place in 1919. In Schenck's case, it was found that he was mailing letters that was obstructing recruitment for…

The original case before it went to the Supreme Court was State v. Fish and Hubbard. A fight broke out between Fish and a man named Miller in a bar in Black Eagle, Montana. Fish was with a woman named Skelton who called her brother Hubbard to help. Hubbard also brought his friend Lodge to help in the fight. Miller left the bar and Skelton, Fish, Hubbard and Lodge decided to go to Millers house directly. Miller’s fiancé got home and Fish, Hubbard and Lodge heard Miller speaking to her. Fish,…

Microsoft v. United states December 2013, the agents of the federal law enforcement told the United States District Court that the warrant requiring Microsoft to disclose all e-mails and other information associated with the account of one of its customers. The people that need them because they had received reports and beliefs that the account was being used for drug trafficking and that they need the emails for proof. Magistrate Judge then issued the requested warrant. The United states in the…