I had no idea circuit courts were called that because justices used to travel around the region on a "circuit". That is so interesting. I can only imagine how much different it would have been to have to wait for the court to come to you instead of going to the court. I wonder if...
@Melonlity -- frankly, it is a very good idea to bring courts of law and equity together and have that circuit judge wear both hats. Circuit judges are a bit hampered in bifurcated court systems as some cases can't neatly be classified as matters at law or equity -- they often involv...
There are no jury trials in those courts and there is a way to appeal to the higher, circuit court where the district court's decision will essentially be tossed out the window and the case is tried again. Share WiseGeek, in your inbox ...
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A felony court is one that hears cases about relatively more serious crimes, such as murder, manslaughter, rape, kidnapping...
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When a petition is filed, the plaintiff and the defendant are given the opportunity to settle the case privately or to use an alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process rather than go to trial. The court may also provide a summary judgment. If the case goes to trial, the judge will ...
Footnote 27 This assumption is rooted in the not dismissible fact that ‘[t]he law attempts to achieve a uniform standard of interpretation by assuming that the person to whom the utterance is addressed will be a “reasonable” person, which in practice usually means the judge’. Secondly, ...
aCircuit Judge Michael Boudin, writing for the three-judge panel, acknowledged that the ruling carries little weight since the case, and others like it, will eventually land in the U.S. Supreme Court. “Many Americans believe that marriage is the union of a man and a woman, and most Amer...
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