civics vocab
vocabulary
Terms
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- brief
- a written document explaining the position of one side or the other in a case
- remand
- to send a case back to a lower court to be tried again
- criminal case
- case in which a person has been accused of breaking a law
- appellate jurisdiction
- the authority of a court to hear a case appealed from a lower court
- constitutional
- in accordance with the constitution
- circuit
- the area of jurisdiction of a federal court of appeals
- original jurisdiction
- the authority to hear cases for the first time
- opinion
- a detailed explanation of the legal thinking behind a court's decision in a case
- jurisdiction
- a court's authority to hear and decide cases
- civil case
- case that involves disputes between people or groups in which no crime was committed