Question

Which would most likely fall under original jurisdiction?


a.) a case involving state laws

b.) a case between two companies

c.) a case appealed from a lower court

d.) a case between two states

Answer 1

The US Supreme Court currently exercises original jurisdiction over only one type of case: disputes between the States. Until 1978, cases against foreign ambassadors also began in the Supreme Court; however, Congress relieved the Court of exclusive jurisdiction when it amended the federal law (28 USC § 1251) to allow US District Courts to hear these cases first.

The Supreme Court may choose to try a case involving ambassadors or other foreign dignitaries, but is more likely to remand this class of case to US District Court.

US Supreme Court original and EXCLUSIVE jurisdiction:
all controversies between two or more States

All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other
public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are
parties


28 USC § 1251

(a) The Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive
jurisdiction of all controversies between two or more States.

(b) The Supreme Court shall have original but not exclusive
jurisdiction of:

(1) All actions or proceedings to which ambassadors, other
public ministers, consuls, or vice consuls of foreign states are
parties;

(2) All controversies between the United States and a State;

(3) All actions or proceedings by a State against the citizens
of another State or against aliens.


Public Law Amendment

1978 - Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95-393, Sec. 8(b)(1), designated introductory provision of subsec. (a) and (a)(1) as (a), and struck out "(2) All actions or proceedings against ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign states or their domestics or domestic servants, not inconsistent with the law of nations". Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 95-393, Sec. 8(b)(2), substituted "to which ambassadors, other public ministers, consuls, or" for "brought by ambassadors or other public ministers of foreign states or to which consuls or".

Amendment by Pub. L. 95-393 effective at the end of the ninety-day period beginning on Sept. 30, 1978, see section 9 of Pub. L.95-393, set out as an Effective Date note under section 254a of Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse.
From: http://www.answers.com/Q/What_two_types_of_cases_does_the_Supreme_Court_hear_under_original_and_exclusive_jurisdiction

Answer 2

So your answer would be D.

Answer 3

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Answer 7

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