BCOR 320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Specific Performance, Affirmative Defense, Class Action
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General jurisdiction- who gets to hear a case. First there is a trial court, then an appeals court, and at this level, it is them arguing about the law and how it was applied properly or improperly. Above that there is the supreme court which can decide which cases it wants to hear. They can straighten things out to try and make there be one law, so there is(cid:374)"t o(cid:374)e la(cid:449) i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e dist(cid:396)i(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d a diffe(cid:396)e(cid:374)t o(cid:374)e i(cid:374) a(cid:374)othe(cid:396). State court systems parallel the federal system but with different names. We call our trial court (in wv) the (cid:272)i(cid:396)(cid:272)uit (cid:272)ou(cid:396)t. add the (cid:374)a(cid:373)e of the (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:455) to tell (cid:455)ou (cid:455)ou"(cid:396)e i(cid:374) the state (cid:272)ou(cid:396)t. so(cid:373)e states (cid:272)all this a district court. Jurisdiction- a court has the authority to hear a case. The federal court asks two questions for jurisdiction. They have the authority to hear federal questions or diversity suits (people from different states or countries).
