The Superior Court — known until 2004 as the Territorial Court — is
the trial court of general jurisdiction in the V.I.. Its site includes extensive information about the court, as well as calendars, selected opinions and forms.
Breyer was the keynote speaker at a dinner commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Massachusetts Superior Court, one of the oldest
trial courts of general jurisdiction in the country.
Not exact matches
But, the decision leaves Congress with the option
of potentially changing that statute which currently limits the personal
jurisdiction of federal
trial courts to that of a state court of general jurisdiction in the same state, as it already does in cases that are predominantly «in rem» (e.g. interpleader cases and interstate boundary and real property title disputes), in bankruptcy cases, and with respect to the subpoena power of U.S. District C
courts to that
of a state
court of general jurisdiction in the same state, as it already does in cases that are predominantly «in rem» (e.g. interpleader cases and interstate boundary and real property title disputes), in bankruptcy cases, and with respect to the subpoena power
of U.S. District
CourtsCourts.
(U.S. June 19, 2017) in which the
court finds that «specific personal
jurisdiction» (as opposed to «
general jurisdiction») is lacking with regard to the claims
of members
of the class
of plaintiffs who are not California residents in this case brought in a California state
trial court (in an 8 - 1 decision with Justice Sotomayor dissenting).
In a 2005 national sample
of state
courts of general jurisdiction, half
of plaintiff winners in tort
trials were awarded $ 24,000 or less in damages.
at 4 (observing that decrease in jury
trials from 1976 to 2002 in
courts of general jurisdiction of sample in 22 states «was similar in jury
trials (from 3.4 percent to 1.3 percent) and bench
trials (from 5.0 percent to 2.0 percent)»).
During 2005, judges decided 32 % (8,543)
of the nearly 27,000 civil
trials disposed
of by state
courts of general jurisdiction nationwide.
In 2005 there were an estimated 26,950 tort, contract, and real property
trials in state
courts of general jurisdiction nationwide.
Where an inferior
court can have no
jurisdiction of a case
of law or equity, the ground
of objection is not taken by plea in abatement, as an exception
of the given case from the otherwise
general jurisdiction of the
court; appearance does not cure the defect
of judicial power, and it may be relied on by plea, answer, demurrer, or at the
trial or hearing.
Circuit
courts are West Virginia's only
general jurisdiction trial courts of record.
The
general jurisdiction court is the Superior Court of Arizona, a statewide trial c
court is the Superior
Court of Arizona, a statewide trial c
Court of Arizona, a statewide
trial courtcourt.
The circuit
courts are West Virginia's only
general jurisdiction trial courts of record.
As Québec expanded the
jurisdiction of its provincial
court over the last 50 years (for the most part, when it was governed by the Parti québécois), it took more and more out of the former exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&ra
court over the last 50 years (for the most part, when it was governed by the Parti québécois), it took more and more out
of the former exclusive
jurisdiction of the Superior
Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&ra
Court, impinging ever more on what the Supreme
Court, in Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions of private and public law&ra
Court, in
Trial Lawyers Association
of British Columbia v British Columbia (Attorney
General), 2014 SCC 59, [2014] 3 SCR 31, described as its «historic task... to resolve disputes between individuals and decide questions
of private and public law».