Context: The titles of state supreme court vary, which can cause confusion between jurisdictions because one state may use a name for its highest court that another uses for a lower court. In New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia the highest court is called the Court of Appeals, a name used by many states for their intermediate appellate courts. Further, trial courts of general jurisdiction in New York are called the Supreme Court, and the intermediate appellate court is called the Supreme Court, Appellate Division. In West Virginia, the highest court of the state is the Supreme Court of Appeals. In Maine and Massachusetts the highest court is styled the "Supreme Judicial Court"; the last is the oldest appellate court of continuous operation in the Western Hemisphere.

Question: What may cause some confusion in the US regarding state supreme courts?
Answer: titles of state supreme court vary

Question: The Court of Appeals is the high court in which US States or territories?
Answer: New York, Maryland, and the District of Columbia

Question: What is West Virginia's highest court called?
Answer: Supreme Court of Appeals

Question: What state's supreme court is the oldest appellate court body in the western hemisphere?
Answer: Massachusetts

Question: Supreme Courts in New York serve what function?
Answer: trial courts of general jurisdiction

Question: What is the highest court in Virginia?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What state has the oldest judicial court of continuous operation in the Western Hemisphere?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In New York, what is the intermediate judicial court called?
Answer: Unanswerable