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-Natural Law
-Historical Law
-Analytical
-Sociological
-Command
-Critical Legal Studies
-Law and Economics |
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-Law is based on what is "correct"
-Law should be based on morality and ethics |
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| -Law is an aggragate of social traditions and customs |
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| -Law is a means of achieving and advancing certain sociological goals |
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| -Law is a set of rules developed, communicated, and enforced by the ruling party |
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| Critical Legal Studies School |
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| -Legal rules as unnecessary, with legal disputes to be solved by applying arbitrary rules based on fairness |
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| -Promoting market efficiency as the central concern of legal decision making |
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| Doctrine of Stare Decisis |
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-past court decisions become precedent
-lower courts follow higher courts
-one jurisdiction not bound by another |
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| Priorit of Law in the U.S. |
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-constitution and treaties
-federal statutes over federal regulations
-valid federal law over conflicting state law
-state constitutions are highest state law
-state statutes over state regulations
-valid state law over local laws |
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-Federal Court Systems
-State Court Systems |
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-Supreme Court
-Intermediate Appellate Courts
-Limited-Jurisdiction Trial Courts
-General-Jurisdiction Trial Courts |
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| Limited-Jurisdiction Trial Courts |
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Hears matters of specialized or limited nature
-Traffic Court, Juvenile Court, Probate Court, Etc. |
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| General-Jurisdiction Trial Courts |
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-Cases of a general nature not within jurisdiction of limited-jurisdiction courts
-record and store testimony and evidence |
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| Intermediate Appellate Courts |
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-Appeals from trial courts
-Review trial court record for errors
-No new testimony of evidence |
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-"supreme court"
-hears appeals from intermediate state courts and certain trial courts
-no new testimony or evidence
-final unless a question of law |
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-U.S. Supreme Court
-U.S. Courts of Appeals
-Special Federal Courts
-U.S. Distric Courts |
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Matters of specialized of limited jurisdiction
-tax court, court of federal claims, bankruptcy court |
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-Trials court of general jurisdiction
-most federal cases originate
-lifetime appointments |
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-Intermediate Appelate Courts
-appeals from district courts in their circuit
-13 circuits
-lifetime appointments |
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