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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| crecit | the area of jurostcshon of a fedrul cort of appils |
| juristicshon | a corts atority to hear and desid cases |
| executiv juristicshon | atority of only fedrul corts that hear and desid cases |
| cocerint juristicshon | atority for both fedrul and state corts to hear and deside cases |
| district cort | fedrul cort in wich triols and lawsuts begin |
| opinion | a detald explanashon of the leagol thinking behind a case |
| precedent | a rulig that is used as a basses for judishol disigon for later cases |
| appeals court | a cort that revuse disegons made in lower court districts |
| origenol jurostcshon | the athority to hear cases for the ferst time |
| appelt jrosticshon | the atority of a court to hear a case apelld from a lower court |
| remand | to send a case back to lower courts to be tride agin |
| judishol revuew | the power of suprem court to say wether any law inforsmont is going aginst the constetushon |
| constetushonal | in acoedin with the constetushon |
| docket | a courts calender wish list all cases for that day |
| brief | a righton document explaning one side or anothe in a case |
| majority opinyon | a staemint that prsints the verchus of the majority of suprem court |
| unanimous opinyon | the suprem court rules on a case in wich all justess agery on the ruling |
| concuring oppiyon | a state mint riton by justes vote with majoerity for difrent resons |
| diserning opinyon | a justes who disegrys with the majority opinyon presints ther own |
| stare decisis | the practes of using erler judishol ruling as a dasses for destebuting a case |
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