POLS 155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Appellate Jurisdiction, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Retention Election
11 Dec 2017
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No age, residency, or citizenship requirements are delineated in the constitution. Judges hold their of ces during good behavior. Judicial decisions: constrained by applicable constitutional law, statutory and administrative law, precedent. Judge made law that guides and informs subsequent court decisions involving similar or analogue situations: judiciary has become an increasingly powerful policymaking body in recent decades. The supreme court of the united state: article iii grants supreme court authority, original jurisdiction the authority to be the rst court to hear a case, supreme courts original jurisdiction. Appellate jurisdiction- the authority to review cases that have already been heard. !1: cases arising under the constitution federal law and regulations and treaties, appeals to legal controversies that cross state or national boundaries. Selecting a case: losing party in a lower court case appeals, if at least four justices agree to head the case, the court issues a writ of certiorari a request for a record of the case.
