Unit 6 Government

Person for whom the lawsuit/complaint is filed against

• defendant

• double jeopardy

• double jeopardy

• original jurisdiction

Provision of the 5th Amendment that forbids being tried twice for the same crime

• defendant

• double jeopardy

• exclusive jurisdiction

• dissenting opinion

Power of the federal courts ALONE to hear certain cases

• original jurisdiction

• double jeopardy

• civil case

• exclusive jurisdiction

A court in which a case is first heard has this

• original jurisdiction

• exclusive jurisdiction

• double jeopardy

• civil case

A case that involves a dispute over terms of a contract or claim of patent infringement

• civil case

• original jurisdiction

• exclusive jurisdiction

• double jeopardy

Written by justices who do not agree with the Court's majority decision

• dissenting opinion

• civil case

• original jurisdiction

• double jeopardy

List of cases to be heard

• docket

• civil case

• concurring opinion

• All of the Above

If a justice agrees with the Court's decision, he/she may add or emphasize a point that was not made in the majority opinion

• civil case

• concurring opinion

• civil case

• dissenting opinion

Majority opinions stand as examples to be followed in similar cases as they arise in the lower courts

• concurring opinion

• civil case

• docket

• precedent

The authority for courts to hear a case

• concurring opinion

• docket

• jurisdiction

• precedent