Talk:State supreme court

message: This page is terribly written.  At the very least, it should be retitled "court of last resort."  Secondly, the notion that state courts of last resort don't "do factual findings" is in error, as several states have supreme courts with original jurisdiction in some matters, just as the U.S. Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in some matters.
:You're right that there are a few minor errors, but overall, the page is fine.  Furthermore, your renaming proposal is silly.  Can you actually cite to a single source, anywhere, that regularly calls them "courts of last resort?"  Google Book Search (which searches the full content of thousands of books that Google has scanned in by hand) returns 34,100 hits for the phrase "state supreme court," and Book Search is still in beta (it will be much larger in a few years). In contrast, "court of last resort" gets only 9,850 hits, and many of the hits are clearly referring to court of last resort in its correct sense, meaning the highest court of any jurisdiction.  This would include, for example, the European Court of Justice for European Union jurisdictions.--Coolcaesar 06:06, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page title, possible errors

message: State Supreme Courts, do in fact, make fact finding decisions. In the State judicial system, there are Trial courts, Appellate courts, and Supreme courts. The Trial Courts make fact finding decisions. If a party to the decision does not agree with the decision, he has the write to appeal to the State Appellate Division. The Appeals Courts do not make finding of fact. They determine if the Trial Court made an egregious error. If so, the case is remanded back to trial. If not, the decision of the trial court is affirmed. If a party to the case does not agree with the decision of the Appellate Court, he then has a right to make an appeal and request a writ of certiorari to State Supreme Court. If the Supreme Court grants the the right to hear the case, and has determined that there is some possible error in both the decisions of the Trial Court and the Appellate Court, they grant the writ of certiorari and hear the case themselves. At that point, they do make fact finding decisions. Without decisions of the State Supreme Courts, we would have no "common law precedent" and thus no binding precedent on the lower courts in the state judicial systems. Sometimes the State Supreme Courts and the State Appellate Courts are varied in name depending on the state and it makes it very difficult to determine exactly what division they are representing, especially in the Northeastern States. For example: The Court of Appeals of New York is actually what we would commonly refer to as the The New York Supreme Court and The New York Appellate Division is actually what we would commonly refer to as the The New York Court of Appeals. 
Source for all of the above: Introduction to Law and the Legal System 10th Edition by Frank August Schubert
--Editing 11:28, 22 November 2011 (MLSchlenker)Mlschlenker (talk) 17:31, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Function of State Supreme Courts, clear errors

message: It might be worth noting the cities in which the courts are located, because not all of them are in state capitals.  Alaska's supreme court is in Anchorage, not Juneau, for example.  Are there others?
--Editing 17:19, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Court locations

message: If we add up the number of states in each given mode of selection, there are 52 states.  75.216.113.149 (talk) 22:53, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  52 states 

message: I had hoped to find some terminology preferences such as the titles worn by judges at state appellate courts, and whether there is a lot of variation.  Imagine the predicament of a court interpreter or legal writer groping for equivalents of titles used for judges in state appellate courts in other countries, for instance. Literal translations are often conceptually misleading and making stuff up runs the risk of accidentally choosing a title that has a specific and incompatible technical use in another context. For instance, Illinois courts like to call prosecutors states' attorneys and some other states refer to them as district attorneys, whereas military and immigration courts call them trial attorneys. I came to this section looking for rank hierarchies of state appellate court judges, but found none.
Lawyers in other states, foreigners trying to make sense of something, and yes, translators, would benefit from adding some title info to the terminology section. translator (talk) 21:05, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology, adding titles of judges, etc.