Thursday, May 13, 2010

What cases does the supreme court accept?

Are there qualifications for what cases can be brought into the Supreme Court? And if so, what are they?What cases does the supreme court accept?
So Infer, you taking a test on the Supreme Court or writing a paper. Every answer you need is on the internet somewhere, Google it...you will learn a lot more.





LISSAWhat cases does the supreme court accept?
anything federal...and to do with constitutional rights, federal laws, big things like espionage, etc.
The ones they choose to.





Lot's of people appeal to them, but it's up to the court to decide which ones they want to hear.
That depends.....cases dealing with Constitutional issues(ex: due process), DP cases, state v federal issues.
There generally two types of issues in any trial. Issues of fact and issues of law.





Issues of fact are things like, which witnesses are most credible, what explanation makes sense, etc. things that the jury decides.





Issues of law are things like, what evidence is admissable/not admissable, what should the jury instructions be, what objections should be sustained/overruled. These are things the judge does in a jury trial.





Issues of law are what is appealable to a higher court, not issues of fact. A higher court accepts an appeal if they feel like the lower court erred in making a judgement of law, or if the issue is not covered by a previous precedent.





The supreme court will take cases that it feels may be an error, or that affect a constitutional issue that is not clearly covered by precedent. Or that the existing precedent is unconstitutional. Only the Supreme court can properly overrule a previous Supreme Court precedent.

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