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Law - ✔✔Society's binding rules
Primary v. Secondary Law - ✔✔Primary- binding (law, anything passed by
Congress)
Secondary- Non-binding (SCOTUS dissenting opinions, summaries, law
dictionary, law articles, etc)
Federal v. State - ✔✔Most laws are state laws; exceptions reserved for the
states (Federalism)
Statutory v. Common - ✔✔Statutory- WRITTEN, statutes - from legislature,
constitution, treaties, etc
Common- rules on these areas of law that are not from statutes
Criminal v. Civil - ✔✔Criminal- from criminal/penal code, against state/gov
(felonies, etc); prosecute
Civil- offenses amongst people (torts, etc) - sue
Federal Court System - ✔✔1) Supreme Court (1)
2) Federal Circuit Courts (13)
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, 3) a. Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction (94) (US District courts)
3) b. Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction (US Specialty courts)
Supreme Court - ✔✔-(1)
-Federal Court System
-court of last resort; high court; last hope
-deals with question of law
Federal Circuit Courts - ✔✔-(13)
-deal with question of law
Trial Courts of General Jurisdiction (Federal) - ✔✔US District courts (94)
-deals with question of fact and law
-A trial court of general jurisdiction may hear any civil or criminal case that
is not already exclusively within the jurisdiction of another court
Trial Courts of Limited Jurisdiction (Federal) - ✔✔-US Specialty courts
-Determined by Federal statutes
-Trial courts of limited jurisdiction may be limited in subject-matter
jurisdiction (such as juvenile, probate, and family courts in many U.S.
states, or the United States Tax Court in the federal judiciary) or by other
means, such as small claims courts in many states for civil cases with a low
amount in controversy
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