• active United States district and territorial courts. Each of the 50 states has between one and four district courts, and the District of Columbia and Puerto...
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  • The United States territorial courts are tribunals established in territories of the United States by the United States Congress, pursuant to its power...
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  • former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California, each of these...
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    territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court. Appeals from the District Court are taken to the United States Court of Appeals...
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  • The courts of the United States are closely linked hierarchical systems of courts at the federal and state levels. The federal courts form the judicial...
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    The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each...
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    The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United...
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    The United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (in case citations, S.D. Fla. or S.D. Fl.) is the federal United States district court...
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    The United States District Court for the District of Wyoming (in case citations, D. Wyo.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the...
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    list of all judges of the United States district and territorial courts. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide...
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    The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) is a federal...
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    The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (in case citations, E.D. Va.) is one of two United States district courts serving...
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    Manhattan, the Southern District of New York has long been one of the most active and influential federal trial courts in the United States. It often has jurisdiction...
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    Courts in other insular areas are territorial courts under Article I of the Constitution, not United States district courts, although they have similar jurisdiction...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (in case citations, 3d Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts...
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    The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (in case citations, E.D.N.Y.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction...
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    The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (in case citations, N.D. Cal.) is the federal United States district court whose...
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    The United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (in case citations, D. Mass.) is the federal district court whose territorial jurisdiction...
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    The United States District Court for the District of Delaware (in case citations, D. Del.) is the Federal district court having jurisdiction over the entire...
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    and the United States Courthouse in Wichita. The District of Kansas was created in 1861, replacing the territorial court that preceded it, and President...
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    United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (in case citations, 11th Cir.) is a federal appellate court over the following U.S. district courts:...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is one of the 13 United States courts of appeals. It has appellate...
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    nsf/page/courts_district_co.html U.S. District Courts of Colorado, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center "Cole Finegan Sworn in as United States Attorney"...
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  • of federal judges for United States federal courts is done via nomination by the President of the United States and confirmation by the United States...
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    The United States District Court for the District of Arizona (in case citations, D. Ariz.) is the U.S. district court that covers the state of Arizona...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...
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    The United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (in case citations, C.D. Ill.) serves the residents of forty-six counties, which...
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    United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (in case citations, D.S.D.) is the United States District Court or the Federal district...
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    480727; -73.214117 The United States District Court for the District of Vermont (in case citations, D. Vt.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction...
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