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It is, strictly speaking, conferred by the Constitution. ” It is unnecessary to consider whether, if Congress had made no exceptions and no regulations, this court might not have exercised general appellate jurisdiction under rules prescribed by itself. For among the earliest acts of the first Congress, at its first session, was the act of September 24th, 1789, to establish the judicial courts of the United States. That act provided for the organization of this court, and prescribed regulations for the exercise of its jurisdiction.
Paid cases are what the label suggests: the litigants have sufficient financial wherewithal to hire counsel; pay the filing fee; and furnish the required printed briefs, petitions, and record. Cases filed in forma pauperis (in the manner of a pauper) are on behalf of individuals too poor to afford the usual paid advocates and amenities. Most of the paupers petitioning the Court for certiorari are federal or state prisoners who are challenging procedures by which they were convicted, arguing that conditions of their confinement violate the Constitution, or seeking to overturn a death sentence.
No other reason than that * * * can be assigned, why some, at least, of those cases should not have been left to the cognizance of the state courts. * * * [Another] motive[,] *** perfectly compatible with the most sincere respect for state tribunals, might induce the grant of appellate power over their decisions. That motive is the importance, and even necessity of uniformity of decisions throughout the whole United States, upon all subjects within the purview of the constitution. Judges of equal learning and integrity, in different states, might differently interpret statute, or a treaty of the United States, or even the constitution itself.