Judicial Branch Questions

1. What is jurisdiction?
2. According to the Constitution, what types of cases are heard by federal courts?
3. What is a plaintiff?
4. What is a defendant?
5. At what level are most federal cases heard?
6. What does it mean to make an appeal?
7. What is the highest court in the nation? What types of cases do they typically take?
8. What is the American Bar Association?
9. What is the only way one can forcibly remove a federal judge?
10. What is the difference between judicial restraint and judicial activism?
11. What is judicial review?
12. What are the three primary checks against the judicial branch?

13. What are the special lawyers that try both civil and criminal cases? Which branch of
government do they report to?
14. What is a public defender?
15. What does it mean when someone files an appeal?

16. What was the primary result of Marbury v. Madison?

17. What was the primary result of Dred Scott v. Sandford?
18. What was the primary result of Plessy v. Ferguson?
19. What was the primary result of Brown v. Board of Education?
20. What is a brief? What are oral arguments?
21. List and describe the three types of opinions that can happen in a Supreme Court case.