Civil court cases may involve any combination of private citizens, businesses, government institutions, or other parties. Typically, the function of a civil court is to determine liability of one party for the injuries, which do not necessarily need to be of a physical nature, that are suffered by another party.
They are both right because Barack Obama was the one who elected the justices into the Supreme Court but they are of course in no way connected to Barack Obama except for the fact that he was the one who elected them into the court.
