POLS 3130 Lecture 5: POLS lecture 5.docx
30 Mar 2012
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United states judicial system is not unified. On most cases states court of appeal is the highest court of appeal. On some matters of the law us supreme court cannot hear cases and cannot imply rules. So if the state law does not imply with the federal constitution, in that case you can take that case to the us supreme court. In us criminal law is entirely a state matter. In that case the highest state court of appeal will have a final world. Territorial: certain geographical territory on which the court cases will be binding. So the ontario courts are binding on ontario. If ontario court makes a rule those rules only apply to. It can be original jurisdiction: original jurisdiction means that you can be the first court that can hear an argument: appellate: this jurisdiction means that courts can hear jurisdiction from the courts below them.
