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| Federal Court Workload - non Supreme Court |
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Criminal Cases < 20%
-War on Drugs cases make up 30% of that 20%
Civil Cases < 20%
-Civil rights or Prisoner's rights
Private civil suits - 60%
-cases that reach federal courts through diversity jurisdiction or if an issue of federal law is at hand
Administrative cases - 8% |
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6% administrative law
10% civil rights
75% things passed up from federal courts
-10% criminal (of total)
-65% civil (of total)
---50% of that 65% involve the federal government
25% passed up from state courts |
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| the Supreme Court can only consider questions of law on appeal (as opposed to ‘fact’ issues) |
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| Major legal issue of Bush v. Gore |
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| Equal Protection Clause (everyone is entitled to equal protection under the law – 14th amendment) |
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| Legal question of Bush v. Gore and existing precedent |
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• Whether Florida’s recount of the votes was a violation of the constitution by violating the equal protection clause because ‘different voters were not being treated equally’
o Unbroken precedent at that point that the EPC required purposeful discrimination |
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| Ruled that the FL courts’ election standards were unconstitutional (even though everyone uses them) |
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