[Hotlanta Mike]

Taitz’s strategy all along was to file this case in HI State Court and if thrown out appeal with the 9th Circuit where she already has one case pending (conjoin the cases?). Either way it will not be over in 2 minutes as someone on this thread has claimed...

[thecodont]

Taitz’s strategy all along was to file this case in HI State Court and if thrown out appeal with the 9th Circuit where she already has one case pending (conjoin the cases?). Either way it will not be over in 2 minutes as someone on this thread has claimed...

God be with her.

[EDINVA]

I’m not a lawyer, but I think the trajectory to a federal Circuit Court is from a federal District Court. You have to begin at the District Court level, claiming violations of federal law. Then, if you lose there, you go to the appeals court, I don’t think one goes from a municipal or state court to a federal appeals court, with the exception of the DC Court of Appeals, and then IIRC it’s straight to SCOTUS.

[Future Useless Eater]

>> Taitz’s strategy all along was to file this case in HI State Court and if thrown out appeal with the 9th Circuit where she already has one case pending (conjoin the cases?). Either way it will not be over in 2 minutes as someone on this thread has claimed...

I remember a case recently that went to SCOTUS without first going to any federal district or federal circuit court. I believe the path was State court, then State Supreme Court, then SCOTUS. I googled what I recalled, and that seems to be the way it can sometimes be done.

Good thing too, because it seems like the 9th Circus plans to drag out the clock on any ruling until after November 2012.

Federal Court Concepts

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The third way in which a case can reach the Supreme Court is through an appeal from a state supreme court. Each state has its own supreme court that is the final authority on state law. (However, each state does not always call its highest court the "Supreme Court"; in New York, for example, the highest court is the Court of Appeals.) The Supreme Court will generally not challenge a state court's ruling on an issue of state law. However, the Court will grant certiorari in cases where the state court's ruling deals with Constitutional issues.