Judicial ReEngineering

public prosecutor, or practicing attorney. In the Japanese Judicial Branch there is the Supreme
Court located in Japan, eight high courts, fifty district courts, fifty family courts, and 438
summary courts. In difference, Mexican Supreme Court Justices are appointed by the president,
and then are approved by the Senate to serve for a life term. Other justices are appointed by the
Supreme Court and serve for six years. Federal courts consist of the Supreme Court with 21
magistrates, 32 circuit tribunals and 98 district courts. The Supreme Court of Mexico is located
in "Mexico City. Supreme Court Judges must be of ages 35 to 65 and hold a law degree during
the five years preceding their nomination. In the United States Supreme Court, justices are
appointed by the president and approved by the Senate. As in Mexico, justices serve for a life
term or until retirement. The Supreme Court of the United States is located in "Washington
D.C". The Federal court system consists of 94 federal judicial districts. The 94 districts are then
divided into twelve regional circuits. The United States consist of five different types of courts
that are considered subordinate to the Supreme Court, U.S bankruptcy courts, U.S Courts of
Appeal for the federal circuit, U.S Court of International Trade, U.S Courts of Appeal, and U.S
District Courts.
The Supreme Court
[The] supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other
descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, apex
court, and highest court of appeal. Broadly speaking, the decisions of a supreme court are not
subject to further review by any other court. Supreme courts typically function primarily as
appellate courts, hearing appeals from decisions of lower trial courts, or from intermediate-level
appellate courts.
However, not all highest courts are named as such. Civil law states do not tend to have singular
highest courts. Additionally, the highest court in some jurisdictions is not named the "Supreme
Court", for example, the High Court of Australia; this is because decisions by the High Court
could formerly be appealed to the Privy Council. In a few places, the court named the "Supreme
Court" is not in fact the highest court; examples include the New York Supreme Court, which is
superseded by the New York Court of Appeals, and the former Supreme Court of Judicature of
England and Wales.
Some countries have multiple "supreme courts" whose respective jurisdictions have different
geographical extents, or which are restricted to particular areas of law. In particular, countries
with a federal system of government typically have both a federal supreme court (such as the
Supreme Court of the United States), and supreme courts for each member state (such as the
Supreme Court of Nevada), with the former having jurisdiction over the latter only to the extent
that the federal constitution extends federal law over state law. Jurisdictions with a civil law
system often have a hierarchy of administrative courts separate from the ordinary courts, headed
by a supreme administrative court as it the case in the Netherlands. A number of jurisdictions
also follow the "Austrian" model of a separate constitutional court (first developed in the
Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920).
Within the British Empire, the highest court within a colony was often called the "Supreme
Court", even though appeals could be made from that court to the United Kingdom's Privy
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