Judicial Branch Bingo
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Select the correct term based on the given definition.
Topics of this game:
- the highest court in the country
- deals with disputes about laws that apply to the entire US
- deal with disputes about state laws
- the first court to hear a case
- one side feels that the other side violated their rights in some way
- the decision of a court case
- the decision at the trial court stands
- the power of deciding what is constitutional
- witnesses, videos, photographs, a letter, a murder weapon
- a group of 12 people listen to the evidence and decides who wins the case
- above the trial courts; review cases from trial courts
- the decision is not upheld or overturned
- reviews trial court decision for error, decisions must be followed by all trial courts
- a person has been accused of committing a crime
- there is no jury, a judge gives the verdict
- asking an appellate court to review a case
- the case is sent back to the trial court to start over
- the federal system is divided into these; also called circuit courts
- federal system is divided into districts
- when more than one judge listens to a case
- has 9 justices
- have power over laws in state constitution
- has fewer than 9 justices
- cases are thought of as going "up" through the court system
