What are the main courts in the federal court system?

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The Supreme Court sits at the apex of the federal judiciary. This court was created directly by the Constitution. Under the Supreme Court are the United States Courts of Appeals. There are thirteen Courts of Appeals. These courts were created by Congress. Under the Courts of Appeals are the United States district courts. There is at least one district court in each state and there are more in larger states. These courts were created by Congress. Under the district courts are bankruptcy courts and magistrate-judges. In addition, Congress has created several specialty courts.

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Which of the following is a way to avoid using sexist language?

a. Use "he or she" rather than "he" b. Alternate between masculine and feminine pronouns c. Make the noun plural so a gender-neutral pronoun can be used d. All of these choices are correct

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A person is officially “under arrest” when

a. he or she believes that he or she is under arrest. b. the officer believes that he or she is under arrest. c. a reasonable person would believe that he or she is under arrest. d. a judge declares that an arrest has been made.

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Your supervisor asks you to examine a certain job by its key tasks, creating an importance weight for those tasks, and then create the relative worth of each of those tasks by multiplying the weights by average salary. The supervisor is probably using which method to calculate SDy?

A. percentile method B. average-salary method C. Cascio–Ramos estimate D. superior equivalents and system effectiveness techniques

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During a job interview, the interviewer asks you, "Have you ever assisted during trial?" This is an example of which of the following types of questions??

A. ?Closed-ended question B. Open-ended question? C. ?Hypothetical question D. ?Pressure question

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