Assertion: supreme court's jurisdiction | /r/CapableOf | hear case
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text: Original jurisdiction is the power of a court to hear and decide a case before it has been heard and decided by any lower court.
text: In the DOMA case, the justices went so far as to appoint a Harvard Law School professor — Vicki Jackson — to argue that the court has no jurisdiction to hear the case.
text: This statute provides further that, in the case of disputes between two or more states, the Supreme Court holds both original and exclusive jurisdiction and no lower court may hear such cases, whereas lower federal courts have concurrent jurisdiction in other cases, such as those where only one party is a state, and typically first hear such cases.