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County courts were abolished in 1855 and their functions were transferred to a strengthened Superior Court. [4] As the volume of cases continued to increase, the Connecticut General Assembly found it necessary to create a series of Courts of Common Pleas. On July 1, 1978, the Court of Common Pleas and the Juvenile Court merged with the Superior ...
S.C.R. (or SCR) — Supreme Court Reports (Supreme Court of Canada) S. Ct. — Supreme Court Reporter (Supreme Court of the United States) S.E. — South Eastern Reporter; S.E.2d — South Eastern Reporter, 2nd Series; SCOTUS — Supreme Court of the United States (Supreme Court of the United States) SI — Statutory instruments; S/J ...
United States Reports, the official reporter of the Supreme Court of the United States. Case citation is a system used by legal professionals to identify past court case decisions, either in series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a neutral style that identifies a decision regardless of where it is reported.
A federal court may also remand when a civil case is filed in a state court and the defendant removes the case to the local federal district court. If the federal court decides that the case was not one in which removal was permissible, it may remand the case to state court. Here, the federal court is not an appellate court as in the case above ...
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
Courts of Connecticut include: State courts of Connecticut. Connecticut Supreme Court [1] Connecticut Appellate Court [2] Connecticut Superior Court (13 districts) [3]
The Connecticut Supreme Court, formerly known as the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, is the highest court in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It consists of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices. The seven justices sit in Hartford, across the street from the Connecticut State Capitol. The court generally holds eight sessions of two to ...
One notable capital case in Connecticut was the Cheshire home invasion murders. The two murderers, Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky, were both sentenced to death for the crime, and were among the inmates who had their sentences reduced as result of the state supreme court ruling.