âº a âcomplaint or a âstrong âfeeling that you have been âtreated unfairly: A âspecial âcommittee âinvestigates âprisonersâ grievances. (Definition of grievance from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary Â© Cambridge University Press). See all translations.
Supreme Court Justice. one of the nine judges of the US Supreme Court. Each Supreme Court Justice is chosen by the President of the US and must then be accepted by Congress, and they usually have this position for the rest of their lives. The most important judge is called the Chief Justice. Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English. Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of federal constitutional law, although it may only act within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction.enerally, law clerks serve a term of one to two years. The first law clerk was hired by Associate Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Louis Brandeis were the first Supreme Court justices to use recent law school graduates as clerks, rather than hiring a stenographer-secretary.