Jurisdiction Cases

Jurisdiction is when a court of law or a municipal figure has the right the right and authority to work in a specific territory. Jurisdiction over issues communicate with an authority that is written in the United States’ Constitution or laws to consider with particular cases. (Hall, 2015). The same rule applies when there is a clash in both state and federal decrees and when the national administration takes over a location thereby barring the states. This type of issue does not happen a lot as they usually are equivalent to each other. On the other hand, there are cases where they started out as a state crime and are federal too due to the incline of crime. Concurrent jurisdiction occurs when at least two courts have a simultaneous ownership of the same case that is to be heard.
A determination has to be made as to who has jurisdiction of the case at hand and what type of court of law is needed for the proceedings; however, the legislator makes this decision. With the courts of general jurisdiction, the trial courts make decisions on criminal and civil matters within the laws of the government which entails a large series of