 | Chapter Objectives
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Having read the chapter, students should be able to:
- Understand the structure of the federal court system.
- Discuss the common law tradition and the principle of judicial review.
- Identify the two main types of law and how they differ.
- Describe the judicial requirements that limit the types of cases that federal courts can hear.
- Discuss how the Supreme Court's power and its attention to certain issues have changed over time.
- Describe the Supreme Court's decision making process from its decision whether to review a cases to enforcement of its decisions.
- Explain the process of selecting Supreme Court and other federal court justices.
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