chapter 12 vocab, civics
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- marshal
- person who arrests suspects, delivers defendants to court, and serves people with subpoens
- jurisdiction
- the authority to hear and decide a case (only in specific areas)
- subpoena
- a court order requiring someone to appear in court
- concurrent jurisdiction
- shared authority of courts to hear and decide cases
- oringinal jurisdiction
- the authority to hear cases for the first time.
- civil cases
- cases in which two sides disagree over some issue
- court of appeals
- a federal court that hears only cases on appeal from lower district courts or from federal agencies
- suit
- lawsuit
- magistrate
- person who issues court orders and hears the prekiminary evidence in a case to determine whether the case should be brought to trial.
- criminal cases
- cases in which juries decide if people have comitted crimes
- circuit
- particular geographical area
- exclusive jurisdiction
- means that only the federal courts may hear and decide cases.
- appellate jurisdiction
- the authority to review cases from lower district courts or from federal courts or from federal regulatory agencies
- inferior courts
- courts of lower authority
- remard
- return
- District courts
- the federal courts where trials are held and lawsuits are begun.
- court-martial
- a trial before a punel of military officials