Judicial branch

Type of jurisdiction when a case is heard for the first time

Formal request for SCOTUS to hear a case

• Phone call

• cert

• stare decisis

• judicial review

the number of justices to hear a case in the SCOTUS

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

term that means multiple petitioners

• cert

• amicus curia

• stare decisis

• caesar

agreeing with a decision for different constitutional reasonings