1. THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM Chapter 5 – The Judicial Branch

2. THE PURPOSE OF THE
JUDICIAL BRANCH IS TO
INTERPRET LAWS!!!

3. LEGISLATIVE - MAKE LAWS EXECUTIVE - ENFORCE LAWS
JUDICIAL - INTERPRET LAWS

4. IN THE U.S.A.
THERE ARE 2
COURT SYSTEMS:
FEDERAL AND STATE

5. EACH SYSTEM HAS A RIGHT
TO HEAR CERTAIN
KINDS OF CASES

6. THE RIGHT TO HEAR A CASE
IS CALLED
JURISDICTION!!!

7. FEDERAL COURTS
HEAR CASES OF
NATIONAL CONCERN

8. LIKE…CASES INVOLVING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AND ITS OFFICIALS
FOREIGN AMBASSADORS, MINISTERS, OR CONSULS
2 OR MORE STATES
CITIZENS OF DIFFERENT STATES
A STATE OR ITS CITIZENS AND A FOREIGN GOVT. OR ITS CITIZENS

9. WHAT THE CASE IS ABOUT CAN ALSO PUT IT UNDER FEDERAL JURISDICITON
CASES INVOLVING THE CONSTITUTION
CASES INVOLVING LAWS AND TREATIES OF THE U.S.
CASES INVOLVING ADMIRALTY AND MARITIME LAWS

10. THE FEDERAL SYSTEM HAS
ONE SUPREME COURT
AND 2 LOWER COURTS

11. SUPREME COURT
COURTS OF APPEALS
DISTRICT COURTS

12. THE DISTRICT COURTS
ARE THE
LOWEST LEVEL
OF FEDERAL COURTS

13. THEY ARE THE
COURTS OF
ORIGINAL
JURISDICTION

14. EACH STATE HAS
AT LEAST ONE
FEDERAL DISTRICT
COURT IN IT

15. THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS WAS SET UP IN 1891 TO RELIEVE THE
SUPREME COURT
FROM HEARING ALL APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURTS

16. THERE ARE 11
JUDICAL CIRCUITS
SET UP IN THE U.S.

18. EACH HAS A
COURT OF APPEALS

19. THAT ARE APPEALED FROM THE
THE COURT OF APPEALS
ONLY HEARS CASES
THAT ARE APPEALED FROM THE
DISTRICT COURTS

20. AND AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF THE FEDERAL COURT SYSTEM...

21. THE
SUPREME
COURT

23. THE SUPREME COURT
HAS
9 MEMBERS

24. THEY
ARE
APPOINTED
FOR LIFE

25. The U.S. Supreme Court Stephen Breyer Samuel Alito Elena Kagan
Sonia Sotomayor
Elena Kagan
Clarence Thomas
Antonin Scalia
John Roberts
Anthony Kennedy
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

26. APPOINTED BY A PRESIDENT
EACH JUSTICE WAS
APPOINTED BY A PRESIDENT
AND APPROVED BY
MEMBERS OF SENATE

27. THERE ARE NO
QUALIFICATIONS
FOR
JUSTICES

28. THE CHIEF JUSTICE IS
John Roberts

30. HE WAS APPOINTED
TO BE CHIEF JUSTICE
BY George W. Bush

31. CASES HEARD BY
THE SUPREME COURT
FALL INTO 3
CATEGORIES

32. 1. ORIGINAL
JURISDICTION

33. CASES IN WHICH ANY OF THE 50 STATES ARE A PARTY
THESE ARE CASES INVOLVING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST AMBASSADORS OF FOREIGN NATIONS. OR
CASES IN WHICH ANY OF THE 50 STATES ARE A PARTY

34. BOTH KINDS
ARE RARE!!!

35. 2. APPEALS
FROM
STATE SUPREME COURTS

36. 3. APPEALS
FROM LOWER
FEDERAL COURTS

37. CHOOSE WHICH APPEALS CASES
THE COURT CAN
CHOOSE WHICH APPEALS CASES
IT WANTS TO HEAR

38. IT USUALLY CHOOSES CASES INVOLVING BASIC CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES

39. CONFLICTING DECISIONSOR
TO ISSUES ON WHICH
COURTS OF APPEALS
IN DIFFERENT CIRCUITS
HAVE REACHED
CONFLICTING DECISIONS

40. WHEN LAWS ARE
DECLARED
UNCONSTITUTIONAL...

41. THIS IS
JUDICIAL
REVIEW