Question: Who does a prosecuting attorney represent?

Answer: Government and the people.

Question: What is an order by the Supreme Court directing a lower court to send it the records of a case called?

Answer: Writ of Certiorari

Question: What is the job of an appellate court when it takes a case on appeal?

Answer: Looks for errors of the law.

Question: How does someone become a judge in the federal court system?

Answer: By presidential appointment.

Question: What established the present system of federal district and circuit courts?

Answer: Judiciary act of 1789.

Question: What is meant by the term burden of proof?

Answer: Duty to prove alleged facts in case with solid facts.

Question: Who is most likely to write an amicus curiae brief?

Answer: An interest group.

Question: What term refers to the person who files a lawsuit in civil case?

Answer: Plaintiff.

Question: The below quotation supports what kind of approach to making judicial decisions? Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules, they apply them.

Answer: Judicial Restraint.

Question: What determines which appeals the Supreme Court will hear?

Answer: Justices choose their own cases.