Chap 2

Question 1

Does it matter how that Supreme Court sets up the judicial system in the state?

Answer 1

YES

Question 2

Magisterial district judges

Answer 2

Judges don’t have to be attorneys here
Deal w minor criminal and civil cases
In Lackawanna these judges rotate into a central case that deals w summaries, misdemeanors and sometimes felonies
6 year term

Question 3

2nd level in pa

(From the bottom up) not counting the special courts

Answer 3

Court of common pleas

Question 4

Court of common please

Answer 4

Trial courts
Major criminal and civil cases
10 year judicial term, no one can run against you

Question 5

Court of common pleas elected judiciary

Answer 5

9 full time judges; 3 senior judges (Lackawanna county)

Retire at 75

Question 6

Tort

Answer 6

Negligent crimes (running a red light)

Question 7

Truancy court

Answer 7

Parents are held responsible for their child being absent from school

Question 8

Orphans court

Answer 8

In pa, wills and estates and elderly people

Question 9

Ceo of the court system

Answer 9

President judge. Lead judge of common pleas

Question 10

How spoke at our second class?

Answer 10

Attorney frank castellano

Lackawanna county court admin

Question 11

Jurisdiction.

Answer 11

Power of the court to hear a case

Question 12

Jurisdiction rules: vary on

Answer 12

Subject matter (criminal vs civil)
Geography (where parties reside and the location of where the events from which a case stems)
Diversity of citizenship ( if a foreign gov is a party)

Question 13

Diversity of citizenship requirements

Answer 13

Foreign gov as party in a case
More than $75,000
If people are from different states on all sides

Question 14

Venue

Answer 14

Concerns the place and court in which a case may be brought

Question 15

Forum shop

Answer 15

Lawyers can figure out where their case would win best

Question 16

Vertical court system

Answer 16

Pa and Illinois  (pa \/)
1. Supreme
/\
2. Superior court ----- commonwealth court
/\
3. Common pleas (trial)

Question 17

Horizontal court

Answer 17

For example, pa’s specialized courts. They’re all spread out on the same level
Criminal —– orphans court—–family——-civil