- The inferior courts were created to function beneath the Supreme Court to handle most of the cases tried in the federal court.
- 677 judges handle more than 350,000 cases per year- 80% of the federal caseload.
- There are 94 district courts
- FISA stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court- meet in secret and are entitled to secret search warrants.
- If you are an alien terrorist it means you are a terrorist from another country.
- District courts hear both criminal and civil cases.
- Civil cases are people suing one another and businesses while criminal cases deal with crime against one another.
- A few of the cases go to higher courts if losing parties appeal the ruling.
- Each district has a court of appeals (12) plus 1 court for the Federal Circuit.
- Normally 3-judge panels.
- A federal trial court- only tries civil cases that arise out of the nation's customs and other trade related laws.
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