Posts in 'U.S. Supreme Court'

Regaining the Public Trust: How Transparency & Ethics Can Save the U.S Supreme Court From Its Legitimacy Crisis

Randy Goldson, Winner of PMC's 2024 Law Student Writing Competition

One afternoon my Contracts professor had a memorable Socrates-like moment. For about ten minutes, he probed the class into why judicial decisions have power. The class floated several responses to see which one matched the answer the

"Confirmation Bias" Book Cover

New Book Traces How Partisanship Has Reshaped The Supreme Court

Thursday, July 11, 2019
Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, Hulse has covered legislative and judicial events for more than three decades. His important new book is a deeply reported account of the struggle over the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Antonin Scalia’s death in February 2016. Drawing on...
A map of PA Illustrating the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts

Federal Court Structure

Federal courts only hear two types of cases. The rest must be heard in state courts.

  1. Cases involving federal law
  2. Both Plaintiff and Defendant are from different states AND the case is for more than $75,000

United States District Courts

The United States District Courts are the lowest level of