SUPREME COURT
Across
- 2. List of cases to be heard
- 5. Involves criminal matter
- 7. Detailed written statements
- 13. The lower federal courts
- 16. Reason that forms basis of an argument or conclusion
- 18. judicial decision that serves as a guide for similar cases
- 19. Another name for a case, action
- 20. The person against who made the complaint
- 21. A party to a lawsuit
Down
- 1. process used when lower court is unsure about the procedure that should apply in a case
- 3. Involves non-criminal matter
- 4. Satisfaction of a claim, payment
- 6. A violation
- 8. the party against whom the appeal is taken
- 9. authority of a court to try and decide a case
- 10. the party who takes the appeal to a higher court
- 11. Accuse or bring charges against
- 12. To support or strengthen
- 14. Transcript of proceedings made in the trial court
- 15. An expert in the law especially a judge or legal scholar
- 17. A judicial body, a court