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Manner in which the Court takes Jurisdiction

Manner in which the Court takes Jurisdiction
Variable Name
Spaeth Name
Normalizations
jurisdiction
JUR
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The Court uses a variety of means whereby it undertakes to consider cases that it has been petitioned to review. These are listed below. The most important ones are the writ of certiorari, the writ of appeal, and for legacy cases the writ of error, appeal, and certification.

A few notes are in order. First, there are handful of cases that fall into more than one category. Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), for example, was an original jurisdiction and a mandamus case. We code these cases on the basis of the writ. So Marbury is a coded as mandamus, not original jurisdiction.

Second, some legacy cases are “original” motions or requests for the Court to take jurisdiction but were heard or filed in another court. See, for example, Ex parte Matthew Addy S.S. & Commerce Corp., 256 U.S. 417 (1921), asking the Court to issue a writ of mandamus to a federal judge. Again, we do not code these as “original” jurisdiction cases but rather on the basis of the writ.

Values:

1cert
2appeal
3bail
4certification
5docketing fee
6rehearing or restored to calendar for reargument
7injunction
8mandamus
9original
10prohibition
12stay
13writ of error
14writ of habeas corpus
15unspecified, other