Editing Original jurisdiction (section)

===Supreme Court===
{{main article|Original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States}}
In the United States, courts having original jurisdiction are referred to as [[trial courts]]. In certain types of cases, the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] has original jurisdiction [[concurrent jurisdiction|concurrently]] with lower courts. The original jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court is governed by
[[Article Three of the United States Constitution#Clause 2: Original and appellate jurisdiction|Article&nbsp;III, Section&nbsp;2]] of the [[United States Constitution]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hatton |first1=David |last2=Wexler |first2=Jay |author-link2=Jay Wexler |title=The First Ever (Maybe) Original Jurisdiction Standings |journal=Journal of Legal Metrics |date=2012 |volume=1 |page=19 |url=https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1040&context=faculty_scholarship |access-date=31 May 2019}}</ref> and [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1251 Title 28 of the United States Code, section 1251]. Most commonly, original jurisdiction cases involve suits between states as parties, usually over territorial or water rights disputes.

The United States Constitution defines Original Jurisdiction thus: 
{{quote|In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make. United States Constitution Article III, §3, cl. 2}}