Judicial Branch Crossword
Across
- 3. detailed written statement
- 5. restraint concept that judges should interpret the law, not make it
- 6. case when defendant is tried for federal crime
- 7. opinion to make some point not emphasized in the majority opinion
- 8. authority of a court to try a case
- 9. also called the “Opinion of the Court”
- 12. process used when a lower court is not clear of how to rule a case
- 13. person against whom the complaint is made
- 15. order by the Court directing lower court to send up a given case for review
- 17. list of cases to be heard
Down
- 1. civilian court part of the judicial branch, but separate from the military establishment
- 2. courts lower federal courts
- 4. person who files the suite
- 6. military courts
- 10. a type of jurisdiction over a case as a result of an appeal from a lower court
- 11. opinion written by justices who don’t agree with the Court’s majority decision
- 14. a legal case that establishes principle for later cases
- 15. case a case involving non-criminal matters
- 16. transcript of preceding