The United States Supreme Court may only hear case on appeal from a circuit court of appeals. True or false?

False. A brief can be written after a motion hearing that could end up in the Supreme Court.The United States Supreme Court may only hear case on appeal from a circuit court of appeals. True or false?
This ';best answer'; is nonsense: ';A brief can be written after a motion hearing that could end up in the Supreme Court.'; There are so many things wrong with this statement, I don't know where to begin. This person is not a lawyer, and knows very little about the law.

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The United States Supreme Court may only hear case on appeal from a circuit court of appeals. True or false?
The correct answer is false, but not for the reason given by the ';best answer.'; Part of the reason is correctly stated by the other answers below, that the Constitution confers original jurisdiction upon the Supreme Court for several enumerated manners.

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The other part of the reason it is false is because the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction over certain state court cases, and, thus, these cases would not pass through a Federal Circuit Court of Appeals.

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False.





US Constitution, Article III, Section 2 says, ';In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction.';
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They can bring a case for reconsideration.
Cases maybe, but they hear a lot of things that do not go through the Court of Appeals.





Remember them intervening in the 2000 election, one which almost had Justice Souter resigned!
adam b is right. they have original jurisdiction on a few things amassadors and when one state sues another. new jersey v ny over statue of liberty. others are all wrong. bush v gore wnet to a circut court.