BUS 207- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 70 pages long!)

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Study guide: our laws come from history of laws worldwide cherry-picked from what worked. Balance of powers: executive, legislative, judicial: congressional/legislative laws, administrative agencies, statues, codes, and ordinances, referendums populist movement (people make laws) Court systems: federal, u. s. supreme court/writ of certiorari (supreme court can review cases that haven"t (cid:271)een pulled up the (cid:272)hain, 11 circuit court of appeals, district court (superior, specialty courts, tax, bankruptcy, military. State courts (for cali: writ of certiorari to u. s. supreme court, state supreme court, appellate court (general, region, superior courts by county, small claims court/city court/justice court (jurisdictional by ,000 and less; no lawyers, specialty courts: administrative agencies. Jurisdiction over parties or subject matter: federal question or . 01 and diversity of citizenship between. Parties (federal law or dispute between two states and over : draft complaint, file with court and serve on other party; file. Judge or jury as trier of fact: facts applied to law.