What function(s) do courts of appeal serve?

What will be an ideal response?


They hear cases on appeal from lower courts and they review the legal reasoning behind prior rulings.

Political Science

You might also like to view...

The Four Modernizations were proposed

a. as ways to complete the social restructuring of the Cultural Revolution. b. by Red Guard leaders to challenge bureaucratic leadership. c. as replacements for Mao Zedong's goals for the Cultural Revolution. d. when the Soviet Union withdrew its aid to China. e. to distract people from the infighting among party leaders.

Political Science

How many courts of appeals are in the federal judicial system?

a. 6 b. 8 c. 13 d. 25

Political Science

Article I of the Constitution prohibits which of the following, which makes an act punishable as a crime even if the act was legal when it was committed?

a. writs of habeas corpus b. bills of attainder c. ex post facto laws d. procedural guarantees

Political Science

The socially conservative movement that arose in the late 1970s is called

A) Progressivism. D) libertarianism. B) Anti-Liberalism. E) Neo-Nazism. C) the New Right.

Political Science