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The clerk's responsibilities include oversight of case management and the budget process and supervising personnel responsible for maintaining court records, equipment, information technology, statistics, courtroom services, and jury administration.

Administrative courts are competent for: a) Disputes that arise from individual administrative acts, normative subordinate legal acts and public administrative contracts issued during the exercise of administrative activity by the public organ; b) Disputes that arise because of unlawful interference or failure to act

Courts decide what really happened and what should be done about it. They decide whether a person committed a crime and what the punishment should be. They also provide a peaceful way to decide private disputes that people can't resolve themselves.

Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts The Administrative Office is responsible for carrying out Judicial Conference policies. A primary responsibility of the Administrative Office is to provide staff support and counsel to the Judicial Conference and its committees.

In the High Court, the abbreviation JA is used to denote a justice of appeal, and the letter J refers to a judge of the Court of First Instance.'Judge') means the word "judge".

The federal court system has three main levels: district courts (the trial court), circuit courts which are the first level of appeal, and the Supreme Court of the United States, the final level of appeal in the federal system.

Generally, Congress determines the jurisdiction of the federal courts. In some cases, however such as in the example of a dispute between two or more U.S. states the Constitution grants the Supreme Court original jurisdiction, an authority that cannot be stripped by Congress.

Article III of the Constitution left for the Congress to determine the distribution of federal jurisdiction within a system of federal courts and between the federal and state courts.