Highest Court Label Trap
This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”
Subject distribution
- Constitutional Law1
Example wrong choices
20190_youth_shuttle_municipal_certiorari · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice ANo, because Article III permits the Supreme Court to review only decisions of federal courts and decisions of a state's highest court.
Why it's attractive
The choice says Article III itself creates a formal court-label limit.
Why it's wrong
The choice says Article III itself creates a formal court-label limit.
20190_youth_shuttle_municipal_certiorari · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BYes, because the municipal court's conviction effectively upheld the ordinance against Daniel's constitutional objection.
Why it's attractive
The choice gives a real review ingredient but not the court-level/finality ingredient.
Why it's wrong
The choice gives a real review ingredient but not the court-level/finality ingredient.
20190_youth_shuttle_municipal_certiorari · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DNo, because state law has not specifically authorized direct review of city municipal court judgments by the United States Supreme Court.
Why it's attractive
The choice makes state law the source of federal Supreme Court review power.
Why it's wrong
The choice makes state law the source of federal Supreme Court review power.
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