Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks with the legal terms given below and change the form if necessary.

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1. ____is the location where a case is heard. In the U.S. , it is either a county （for cases in state court）or a district or division（for cases in federal court）. It is a concept distinct from jurisdiction, which focuses on the authority of a court to hear a particular case.

2. An action or suit is“ ____”from its inception until the rendition of final judgment.

3. If four or more of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court vote to take the case, ____will be granted.

4. Although the courts can't interfere with Congress as it writes laws, ____in effect gives courts input into the legislative process when cases involving those laws come before them.

5. Even before a case is settled, a corporation may ask the court to issue an____ to stop another corporation from doing any further damage.

6. Unless the decision is unanimous, one or more“ ____opinions”may be filed by judges who disagree with the majority's conclusion and reasoning.

7. A possible remedy for a breach of contract is specific performance, which is an____ remedy in which the court orders the breaching party to perform duties under the contract.

8. The most often-stated justification for having a system of____ is that equality of treatment serves to limit bias and arbitrariness and allows parties to rely with some certainty on how the system has dealt with cases similar to theirs.

9. In the United States, the Circuit Courts of Appeal usually sit in panels of judges but for important cases may expand the bench to a larger number, when they are said to be sitting____ .

10. ____is the basis for granting to federal courts jurisdiction over cases between citizens of different states, or between a citizen of a state and an alien, subject to the minimum jurisdictional amount of$75,000.