About the Supreme Court - United States Courts
The Court's Jurisdiction Article III, Section II of the Constitution establishes the jurisdiction (legal ability to hear a case) of the Supreme Court. The Court has original jurisdiction (a case is tried …
Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United ...
When a case is between two or more states, the Supreme Court holds both original and exclusive jurisdiction, and no lower court may hear such cases. In one of its earliest cases, Chisholm v. …
Overview of Supreme Court Jurisdiction | Constitution ...
Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution defines the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction. The clause creates two types of Supreme Court jurisdiction that apply to different categories of cases.
Supreme Court Original Jurisdiction - LII / Legal Information ...
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.
The Original Jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court - ThoughtCo
Jul 6, 2022 · While the vast majority of cases considered by the U.S. Supreme Court come to the court in the form of an appeal to a decision by one of the lower federal or state appeals courts, …
Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court - iPleaders Blog
Feb 27, 2024 · The Supreme Court has six types of jurisdiction: original, appellate, advisory, review, inherent, and extraordinary jurisdiction. The article comprehensively explains the …
Jurisdiction of Supreme Court and Inferior Federal Courts
—Perhaps the most important of the special federal question jurisdictional statutes is that conferring jurisdiction on federal district courts to hear suits challenging the deprivation under …