LEGL 2700 1st Edition Lecture 3 Outline of Last Lecture II Legislation A Statute or Act B Ordinance III Administrative Regulations A Notice and comment rule making B Requirements for overturning regulations in court C Enforcement of Regulations IV Judicial Decisions Judicial Opinions Case Law A doctrine of stare decisis B advantages of reliance on judicial decisions C disadvantages of reliance on judicial decisions V Hierarchy of Law I Court Personnel A Judges Justices Outline of Current Lecture B Jurors C Lawyers II Organization of the Court System A State Court System B Federal Court System C Trial Courts D Appellate Courts E Supreme Court I Litigation Start of Chapter 4 These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute II Parties A Plaintiff v Defendant B Counterclaims C Third party defendant D Class Actions Current Lecture Chapter 3 and start of 4 B Jurors Petit Jury small 6 12 people responsible for deciding who wins the case historically there had to be a unanimous decision between all jury members but now more states are allowing for less than unanimous Grand Jury 16 23 people only used for criminal felony cases they decide whether or not the prosecution has enough evidence to go to trial only prosecution is heard at grand jury trial C Lawyers most lawyers rarely actually go to court 20 of attorneys work for only 1 company II Organization of the Court System A State Court System hear cases that deal with state laws B Federal Court System Types of cases in federal court 1 questions under federal law constitutional terrorism federal taxes immigration etc 2 any case in which U S government is a party 3 controversy of suit between two different states 4 diversity of jurisdiction cases when residents of two different states are suing each other IF lawsuit involved more than 75 00 and at least one party says they want to go to federal court C Trail courts can be called superior court circuit court district court depending on the state responsible for determining both the facts of question and facts of law in the case D Appellate courts where you go once you appeal a decision some states only have 1 usually called the supreme court of the state E Supreme Court you do not have the right to appeal in the U S supreme court I Litigation 95 of cases end at the trail case level most lawsuits end halfway through II Parties A Plaintiff v Defendant trail court level B Counterclaims when someone is being sued and they then decide to sue the person suing them for something either related or unrelated to the original case C Third party Defendant when plaintiff sued the defendant and the defendant decides to bring another defendant into the case most people actually want this D Class Actions 1 plaintiff filing suit on behalf of many people ex 1 lawyer sues Fruit Loops for claiming to have Fruit in them on behalf of everyone who ever bough Fruit Loops
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