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Supreme court   /səprˈim kɔrt/   Listen
Supreme court

noun
1.
The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation.  Synonyms: Supreme Court of the United States, United States Supreme Court.
2.
The highest court in most states of the United States.  Synonyms: high court, state supreme court.



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"Supreme court" Quotes from Famous Books



... causes, or motions, in the Supreme Court of the Lord High Inquisitor Punch, to-day? (A ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... been a mystery which I have been asked to explain a thousand times, why the Gadsden Treaty was made with such a boundary line. The true inwardness of the treaty is attempted to be explained. The boundary line at Yuma, on the Colorado, at the junction of the Gila, is now submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court. See ...
— Building a State in Apache Land • Charles D. Poston

... from Scotland to Virginia at the request of Scott's grandfather, who employed him as a private tutor in his family. There were two other students in Mr. Robinson's office with Scott—Thomas Ruffin and John F. May. Ruffin became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, and May the leading lawyer in southern Virginia. After he had received his license to practice he rode the circuit, and was engaged in a number of causes. He was present at the celebrated ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright

... characteristic touch to the rotten hypocrisy of the situation came a letter from Supreme Court Judge McIntosh to George Dysart, whose son was in command of a posse during the manhunt. This remarkable document ...
— The Centralia Conspiracy • Ralph Chaplin

... his master to grapple with Grotius and Barneveld on the field of history and law, and thread with Uytenbogaert or Taurinus all the subtleties of Arminianism and Gomarism as if he had been half his life both a regular practitioner at the Supreme Court of the Hague and professor of theology at the University of Leyden. Whether the triumphs achieved in such encounters were substantial and due entirely to his own genius might be doubtful. At all events he had a sovereign behind him who was incapable of ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley


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