GEN BUS 301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Precedent, Oral Contract, Reasonable Person
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Common law: judge made law, comes from decisions made during past court of appeals. Legislative law: (statutory law) laws made by the legislature. Power of judicial review: the power that judges have to decide if a law is unconstitutional. Can say that common law is more correct than statutory law. Set up to hear evidence from both parties to see if it is credible, is it truthful, are witnesses credible, and does it make sense. Intermediate court of appeals: set up to review what happened at the trial court and look for errors that might have happened (applying the correct laws). You have the right for one appeal per case. Supreme court: (don"t have to take cases) argued orally. What court is deciding this case: federal or state, trial or appellate. States aren"t required to make decisions based off of other states decisions, used to see what reasoning was made.
