1. Write your journal. Topic: Do you think people should judge other people? Would you feel comfortable deciding whether someone was guilty or not guilty? Would you feel comfortable sentencing someone to prision?
2. Complete the following:
Federal Courts vs. State Courts.
Directions: Using the chart on pg. 508, determine if the following cases should be heard in Federal Courts or State Courts. Write your answers on another piece of paper.
1. You get pulled over in Fontana for a speeding ticket.
2. You get a truancy ticket.
3. There is a collision at sea.
4. There is a robbery of a private yacht at sea
5. There is a murder on a cruise ship
6. You decide to sue the Fontana Unified School district because your government class is too easy.
7. The State of Louisiana decides to sue BP for the oil spill
8. You get busted for shoplifting at Victoria Gardens
9. There is a dispute over a contract to deliver a ship’s supplies at dockside
10. Your parents are suing the neighbor over a tree that overhangs into your backyard
11. Jay-Z and Beyonce decide to get a divorce
12. You get a ticket for texting while driving
13. The State of California decides to sue the State of Texas
14. You decide to sue the F.B.I for invasion of privacy
15. You decide to sue the President of Argentina
16. The State of California decides to sue China
17. You get arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol
18. You get arrested for breaking into your neighbor’s house and stealing their copy of Call of Duty
19. You get busted for smuggling drugs on a boat from Cuba
20. You get busted for smuggling illegal aliens from Haiti
21. Melvin Blue entered a federally insured bank and robbed money from the safe. Where will this case be filed?
22. Two weeks later, Blue robbed a man who had just taken money out of an ATM machine in a grocery store. Where will this case be filed?
23. Mary Brown works for ABC Corp.; she claims that her boss refused to promote her because she is a woman. Where will Mary Brown file this case?
24. True or false. "Of all court cases filed annually in this country, for every federal case filed, thirty are filed in state courts."
25. Kidnapping across state lines
26. You decide not to pay income tax
27. You download music illegally
28. You download movies illegally
29. Terrorism crimes
30. McDonalds declares bankruptcy
