Chapter 2 - Quiz

[T/F] When a federal judge is impeached from office, the trial is heard by the Supreme Court, unless a Supreme Court judge is involved.

False

[T/F] Any one member of the Supreme Court can accept a case for the Court to hear.

False

[T/F] Because it is an appellate court, the U.S. Supreme Court has no original jurisdiction.

False

[T/F] Juries are used in state courts, but not in federal court.

False

[T/F] In most federal court of appeals cases, three judges hear the appeals.

True

[T/F] Judges are protected from damages caused by bad decisions they make on the bench by judicial immunity.

True

[T/F] Jurisdiction means the "power to speak of the law" by a court.

True

[T/F] Most of the appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court are not accepted.

True

[T/F] There is no right of appeal in a criminal case lost by the government at the district court trial.

True

[T/F] Trial courts at both the federal and state level are called courts of original jurisdiction.

True