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[edit] USA

Could someone please elaborate on the US federal supreme court? IE, how many justices are there, how are they elected/appointed and for how long, what kind of controversies are involved with competing political agendas, who are some of the more famous and/or controversial justices, and so on? User:Greensheep 23:16, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

whats is the title of the head of the US Supreme court?? -(unsigned)

The words 'supreme court' shouldn't be capitalized unless referring to a specific supreme court; it also makes the page a lot harder to read with all the capitals sticking out everywhere. --Xwu 15:57, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

[edit] UK

Aren't the European courts higher than the House of Lords? I think that I remember hearing that someone tried to appeal a European court ruling to the House of Lords, but the latter declared they didn't have jurisdiction over the former. Thus effectively declaring themselves no longer the highest court? Thryduulf 13:53, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

No, exactly the opposite of that. The Factortame Case involved a Spanish fisherman claiming his right to fish, who although not support in English law, was supported by EU law. The High Court tried to rule in favour of the fisherman, but its decision was reveresed as it did not have the power to make such a ruling. Eventually the case was referred to the ECJ in Luxembourg, whose ruling was that a national court could strike a national law that was incompatible with EU law. The House of Lords was granted the power to rule in favour of an EU law over a UK one. - Thus the House of Lords is the higher court. (Though not the highest. - Less we not forget the Privy Council or the soon to exist Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.) --Daxaius 17:50, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Louisiana is not in fact described under the civil jurisdictions section (as the section on the US states). Someone check diffs and/or add that?

[edit] Hong Kong

Can this be thrashed out here on the talk page rather through an edit war please? --TimPope 11:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

One solution would be to remove the sections "common law" and "civil law", and the list the countries alphabetically: in this system Scotland, Quebec, and Hong Kong would not have their own level 2 headers, they would be listed under the parent country header, as is currently the case for England and Wales, Northern Ireland etc.
Another solution would be add a third section, "common law", "civil law", "other law/mixed systems". UK, PRC and Canada would all move to the latest section.
Satisfactory? --TimPope 15:55, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hong Kong is judicially independent with its own court of last resort (except for the right to intepret and amend its constitutional document). It's not like Québec, which is subordinate to the Canadian supreme court, and Scotland, except for criminal cases, the Law Lords (or later the supreme court in London). Ordinary subnational entities like Québec and Scotland should not be confused with those like Hong Kong. Furthermore, Gibraltar and other territories should not be listed under their corresponding sovereign states. — Instantnood 19:59, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
I am fine with that so long that entries are listed according to sovereignty.--Huaiwei 00:11, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Huaiwei and Instantnood

Due to the obvious edit warring behavior here I am banning Huaiwei and Instantnood both from editing this page further. If someone who is a regular participant here wants to straighten out the mess that is now the Hong Kong section, that would be appreciated. --Wgfinley 04:01, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The case of Quebec

Why is Quebec listed? It's right in the article that it doesn't qualify as a supreme court. Peter Grey 04:42, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

  • I agree. I removed it and Scotland's. GreenJoe 15:31, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georgia Supreme Court and Supreme Court of Georgia moves and renaming

I am posting this here in case anyone is interested. Below is a proposed move:

  • Supreme Court of Georgia → Supreme Court of Georgia (country) —(Discuss)— and then Georgia Supreme Court → Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) —(Discuss)— After looking at the titles of the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) and the Supreme Court of Georgia (country) I think "Supreme Court of Georgia" should link to a disambiguation page. The Georgia Supreme Court is not the commonly used name for the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state). The U.S. State of Georgia has double the population of the country of Georgia, and this is the English Wikipedia, making the Supreme Court of Georgia more commonly known for the court in the U.S. state of Georgia. I propose moving Supreme Court of Georgia to a disambiguation page with links directing people to either the Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state) or the Supreme Court of Georgia (country). This would satisfy both sides, and be a hell-of-a-lot less confusing for the casual reader. KnightLago 13:11, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Added disambiguation link for Supreme Court of the United States.

Normally the Supreme Court of the United States wouldn't deserve special treatment, but there are scores if not hundreds of articles that incorrectly point to Supreme Court instead of Supreme Court of the United States. When this is no longer an issue, remove the disambiguation tag. If anyone finds other countries with that problem, please create a disambiguation page. davidwr 09f9(talk) 23:43, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Israel section very critical without any references

The Israeli section is very different in tone from the other sections. I don't know their legal system, so there may be good reason for that, but we cite something instead of just giving our opinion in the article? VxP 22:29, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the article Court of Appeals

Please see my move proposal at Talk:Court of Appeals#Rename this article?. --Mathew5000 19:30, 9 September 2007 (UTC)