Task: sc_jurisdiction

What follows is an opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States. Your task is to identify the manner in which the Court took jurisdiction. The Court uses a variety of means whereby it undertakes to consider cases that it has been petitioned to review. The most important ones are the writ of certiorari, the writ of appeal, and for legacy cases the writ of error, appeal, and certification. For cases that fall into more than one category, identify the manner in which the court takes jurisdiction on the basis of the writ. For example, Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137 (1803), an original jurisdiction and a mandamus case, should be coded as mandamus rather than original jurisdiction due to the nature of the writ. Some legacy cases are "original" motions or requests for the Court to take jurisdiction but were heard or filed in another court. For example, Ex parte Matthew Addy S.S. & Commerce Corp., 256 U.S. 417 (1921) asked the Court to issue a writ of mandamus to a federal judge. Do not code these cases as "original" jurisdiction cases but rather on the basis of the writ.

DECREE
This cause having come on to be heard on the Report of the Special Master heretofore appointed by the Court, and the exceptions filed thereto, and having been argued by counsel for the several parties, and this Court having stated its conclusions in its opinion announced on October 31, 1995, ante, p. 22, and having considered the positions of the respective parties as to the terms of the decree, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED AS FOLLOWS:
1. The boundary between the State of Louisiana and the State of Mississippi along the Mississippi River between North Latitude 32° 49' 25" and North Latitude 32° 44' lies along the line described as follows:
Beginning at Pt. 1 at North Latitude 32° 49' 25" and West Longitude 91° 09' 27"; thence to Pt. 2, Latitude 32° 49' and Longitude 91° 09' 34"; thence to Pt. 3, Latitude 32° 49' 47" and Longitude 91° 09' 37"; thence to Pt. 4, Latitude 32° 48' 30" and Longitude 91° 09' 39"; thence to Pt. 5, Latitude 32° 48' and Longitude 91° 09' 47"; thence to Pt. 6, Latitude 32° 47' 18" and Longitude 91° 09' 51"; thence to Pt. 7, Latitude 32° 47' 6" and Longitude 91° 09' 54"; thence to Pt. 8, Latitude 32° 47' and Longitude 91° 09' 59"; thence to Pt. 9, Latitude 32° 46' 50" and Longitude 91° 10' 7"; thence to Pt. 10, Latitude 32° 46' 35" and Longitude 91° 10' 14"; thence to Pt. 11, Latitude 32° 46' 20" and Longitude 91° 10' 16"; thence to Pt. 12, Latitude 32° 46' and Longitude 91° 10' 18"; thence to Pt. 13, Latitude 32° 45' 45" and Longitude 91° 10' 20"; thence to Pt. 14, Latitude 32° 45' 30" and Longitude 91° 10' 18"; thence to Pt. 15, Latitude 32° 45' 15" and Longitude 91° 10' 12"; thence to Pt. 16, Latitude 32° 45' and Longitude 91° 10' 01"; thence to Pt. 17, Latitude 32° 44' 45" and Longitude 91° 09' 49"; thence to Pt. 18, Latitude 32° 44' 30" and Longitude 91° 09' 38"; thence to Pt. 19, Latitude 32° 44' 23" and Longitude 91° 09' 30"; thence to Pt. 20, Latitude 32° 44' 15" and Longitude 91° 09' 18"; thence to Pt. 21, Latitude 32° 44' 07" and Longitude 91° 09'; thence to Pt. 22, Latitude 32° 44' and Longitude 91° 08' 44".
2. The State of Louisiana’s prayer that the claim of title by defendants Julia Donelson Houston, et al., in and to the lands and water bottoms lying between the Mississippi River on the east and the Louisiana-Mississippi boundary line as fixed in the preceding paragraph on the west be canceled and forever held for naught is DENIED.
3. The Court retains jurisdiction to entertain such further proceedings, enter such orders and issue such writs as may from time to time be deemed necessary or advisable to give proper force and effect to this decree or to effectuate the rights of the parties in the premises.

Question: What is the manner in which the Court took jurisdiction?
A. cert
B. appeal
C. bail
D. certification
E. docketing fee
F. rehearing or restored to calendar for reargument
G. injunction
H. mandamus
I. original
J. prohibition
K. stay
L. writ of error
M. writ of habeas corpus
N. unspecified, other
Answer:

Answer: I