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What is the only federal court that exercises both original and appellate jurisdiction?
The US Supreme Court (formally: The Supreme Court of the United States)
Which levels of the federal judicial system hashave both original and appellate jurisdiction?
Level 3 : Supreme Court
Which court had original jurisdiction in cases involving foreign dignitaries?
Both the US Supreme Court and the US District Courts share original jurisdiction over cases involving foreign diplomats; however, Congress has decided to allow the US District Courts to exercise original jurisdiction in this area. The Supreme Court may choose to hear these cases, but does not.
What was created to relieve the US Supreme Court's burden of hearing appeals?
On March 3, 1891, Congress passed the Evarts Act(Judiciary Act of 1891) that created nine US Circuit Court of Appeals for each of the established circuits. These intermediate appellate courts were designed to reduce the Supreme Court's burgeoning caseload.The Circuit Court of Appeals had appellate jurisdiction over cases from US District Court as well as from the original Circuit Courts (which had both original and appellate jurisdiction). The old Circuit Courts were gradually phased out, with most cases of original jurisdiction being assigned to US District Court and appellate jurisdiction being assigned to the Circuit Court of Appeals.Congress added the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in 1893.While the Evarts Act also limited the categories of cases that could be appealed the Supreme Court, the justices did not gain discretion over the cases it heard until 1925.In the Judicial Code of 1948, the name of the appellate courts was officially changed from US Circuit Court of Appeals to the US Courts of Appeals for the [designated] Circuit(e.g., US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, or US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit).
What control does the Congress have over the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction?
Congress can pass legislation that prevents the US Supreme Court from exercising appellate jurisdiction over certain Executive and Legislative actions, either in whole or in part. This is known as jurisdiction stripping, or curtailment of jurisdiction. Congress cannot pass legislation that interferes with the Supreme Court's original jurisdiction, as granted by the constitution, nor can they concurrently remove jurisdiction from the Supreme Court and inferior courts, leaving no forum to challenge the legislation (although they may specify which court or courts will have original and appellate jurisdiction in such cases, as they did with Guantanamo detainees).The power to assign jurisdiction derives from three constitutional sources:Article I, Section 8, Clause 19"...To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;"Article III, Section 1The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.Article III, Section 2"...In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."For more information, see Related Questions, below.
