Thursday, November 20, 2014

What I learned in another class

In Ms. Tomlin class we are learning about the federal and state court. The ferderal court only hear cases in special circumstances and state court hear all the cases. Federal court listen to cases involving interstate commerce or criminal activity and a crime that is a violation of federal diversity of citizenship law, such as bank robbery, drug cases, and guns. State court listen to cases that deal with a controversy a rising out of the state constitution or other state laws and a case in which the state is a party, such as  tax violations. Federal court have two type of case a federal question jurisdiction and diversity of citizenship jurisdiction, these cases involve disputes between two parties not from the same state or country. For example a controversy between citizens of two different states. We also learned there's three court system Supreme Court, court of appeals and trial courts. The trial court listen to evidence and decide who is right. If they loser appeals then it go to the court of appeals. They review the trial court decisions and looking for legal errors. There is 3 judges and majority rules. If the loser appeals again then it goes to the Supreme Court, which is the highest court in the country. They reviews the appeals court decision for error. The decisions must be followed by all lower courts and nine justices hears the cases, majority rules.