Federal Judicial Branch
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Topic Outline
Overview
- United States Courts (USCourts.gov). Federal Courts
- United States Courts (USCourts.gov). Structure & Function of the Federal Judiciary
- Federal Judicial Center. About Federal Courts
- Judgepedia. Federal Courts. Portal to federal courts
- About the Judicial Branch
- Roman L. Hruska Institute for the Administration of Justice. Institute was established in 1995 to “educate lawyers, law students, and the public-at-large in Nebraska to the importance of the administration of justice, particularly at the federal level through the conduct of symposia or lectures.”
The Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the nation and leads the judicial branch of the federal government.
- United States Courts (USCourts.gov). Federal Courts
- Harvard Law School. “Free the Law” project is digitizing virtually every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times. Complete state results will become publicly available this fall for California and New York, and the entire library will be online in 2017. The cases will be available at www.ravellaw.com. The project will also offer some sophisticated techniques for visualizing relations among cases and searching for themes. This will allow users to trace how a case went from state to federal appeals courts and ultimately to Supreme Court (along with companion cases involving the same issue).
- Georgetown Law School. Supreme Court Institute (SCI). The centerpiece of SCI is the Supreme Court Moot Court Program, which taps into the expertise of faculty and outside practitioners to prepare counsel for oral argument before the Court. The SCI offers its moot courts as a public service, at no charge and irrespective of the positions taken by counsel, reflecting a core commitment to the quality of Supreme Court advocacy in all cases.
- FantasySCOTUS.net is a fantasy league in which players predict the outcome of upcoming Supreme Court decisions. For each case the Supreme Court grants cert, players predict:
— The Outcome of the Case (Affirm or Reverse the lower Court)
— The Split (9-0, 8-1, 7-2, 6-3, 5-4, 4-1-4, or fragmented)
— The Justices in the Majority, and the Justices in the Dissent
Lower Courts
- United States Courts of Appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the nation. There are thirteen of these courts. The eleven “numbered” circuits and the D.C. Circuit are defined by geography. The thirteenth court of appeal is the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
- United States District Courts are the trial courts of the federal courts. This level of court is composed of ninety-four different courts.
- United States Bankruptcy Courts handle matters of bankruptcy across the nation. Courts correspond with the jurisdiction of the United States District Courts.
- Other Links
- U.S. Federal Courts, by Geographic Location and Circuit
- Harvard Law School. “Free the Law” project is digitizing virtually every state, federal, territorial and tribal judicial decision since colonial times. Complete state results will become publicly available this fall for California and New York, and the entire library will be online in 2017. The cases will be available at www.ravellaw.com. The project will also offer some sophisticated techniques for visualizing relations among cases and searching for themes. This will allow users to trace how a case went from state to federal appeals courts and ultimately to Supreme Court (along with companion cases involving the same issue).
Special Courts
There are seven courts of subject-matter jurisdiction in the federal court system.
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces has jurisdiction over all United States military appeals worldwide.
- U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims hears appeals of the Board of Veteran Appeals.
- U.S. Court of Federal Claims has congruent jurisdiction with the district courts over contractual monetary claims against the federal government under $10,000 and sole jurisdiction on cases over $10,000.
- U.S. Tax Court has jurisdiction over disputes that involve the federal income tax.
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