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Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States
When cases are heard without going through lower courts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Supreme Court of the United States has original jurisdiction in a small class of cases described in Article III, section 2, of the United States Constitution and further delineated by statute.