Juan Sued Abram in State Court, and Lost His Case

question 19

Essay

Juan sued Abram in state court, and lost his case. He immediately appealed to the intermediate level appellate court for his state, where he lost again. After losing again at the state supreme court level, he is so angry that he wants to take his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Does Juan have the right to have his case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court? What is the procedure he would use to get the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his case?

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

The process of acquiring knowledge and skills by observing and imitating others.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the subject to associate certain behaviors with consequences.

Classical Conditioning

A learning strategy in which two stimuli are continually paired; the response that is initially attracted by the second stimulus is in time attracted by the first stimulus alone.

Observational Learning

The act of acquiring behaviors through observation and replication of others.