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- Let’s discuss the problem of the courts in the USA. I know the courts are the overseers of the law. No matter who the man is, everybody should know something about the court.

- I quite agree with you. They administer the law, they resolve disputes under it.

- It each state served by the separate court system.

- Yes, that is so. State and federal system are organized into three basic levels of courts i.e. trial courts intermediate courts of appeal and a high court, or Supreme Court.

- And what are, the state courts concerned with?

- They are concerned essentially with cases arising under state law.

- And what about federal ones?

- Oh, they are concerned with cases arising under federal law.

- No matter how difficult it is to remember, but I want to know about trial courts more detailed.

- Will these courts include common pleas courts, municipal courts, county courts and mayors’ courts?

- Which of them is the most important?

- Of course the common pleas court is the most important. It is the court of general jurisdiction.

- Any civil on criminal cases may be brought here, may not they.

- Yes, of course.

- How, I see and what about probate and domestic division.

- Well, in short the probate division deals with wills and the administration of estates etc. and the domestic division deals with divorce, alimony, child custody.

- This division deserves nothing but great attention and what about the juvenile division?

- This division has jurisdiction over delinquent, unruly or neglected children and over adults.

- How do you think what is the main job of courts.

- No doubt it is to review cases appealed from trial courts to determine if the law was correctly interpreted and applied.

- The Supreme Court of each state is primarily a court of appeal and the court of last resort, isn’t it?

- Sure, it is.

- What is the federal court structure like?

- It is similar to the structure of the state court system. The trail courts in the federal system are the U.S. district courts.

- What is the highest court in the nation?

- The Supreme Court is the highest court in the nation. It consists of a chief justice and eight associate justices.

- Whom are they appointed by?

- They are appointed for life by the President with the advice and Consent of the Senate.

- What is its duty?