Sixty to Eighty-five percent of cases in the civil court system today are for monetary lawsuits depending on the state; seventy percent overall are contract and small claims for monetary damages. Civil cases comprise of contract, tort, real property ,small claims, mental health, probate, and civil appeal cases. In 2007...

The development of the juvenile court system has been revolutionized over the past decades regarding its main guiding principles in development. According to The Juvenile Court: Its Development and Some Major Problems, the legal roots of the juvenile court system is based on the principles of English jurisprudence (Caldwell, 1961)....

The United States Supreme Court is the highest court in the country. It is a federal court created in accordance with the Constitution’s Article III, and has the discretionary and ultimate jurisdiction over all federal courts, and all state court proceedings involving questions of federal law. This is why the...

The objective of this study is to select three elements of the court system that are interesting that interact in some manner with forensic psychology and consider who would be the contributors to each element. Forensic is defined as the “analysis of information suitable for use in a court of...

Over the past few weeks in the U.S., the nomination of and Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh has been front and center of both local and national news, watercooler conversations and most other exchanges between people. Kavanaugh, a federal judge was under investigation due to being accused...