In the United States, a state court is a law court with jurisdiction over disputes with some connection to a U.S. state. State courts handle the vast majority...
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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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In the United States, a state supreme court (known by other names in some states) is the highest court in the state judiciary of a U.S. state. On matters...
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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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Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number...
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The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction...
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All federal courts can be readily identified by the words "United States" (abbreviated to "U.S.") in their official names; no state court may include...
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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....
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of lists of United States Supreme Court cases. The United States Supreme Court is the highest federal court of the United States. Court historians and...
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In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental...
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Courts-martial of the United States are trials conducted by the U.S. military or by state militaries. Most commonly, courts-martial are convened to try...
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The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869,...
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The following are former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California...
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The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal...
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landmark court decisions in the United States contains landmark court decisions which changed the interpretation of existing law in the United States. Such...
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The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...
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State court may refer to: State court (United States) Judiciary of Australia#State and territory courts State Courts of Singapore Landesgericht (Germany)...
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United States are determined by the United States Congress and are governed in part by the United States Constitution, depending in part on the court...
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United States bankruptcy courts are courts created under Article I of the United States Constitution. The current system of bankruptcy courts was created...
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The United States Tax Court (in case citations, T.C.) is a federal trial court of record established by Congress under Article I of the U.S. Constitution...
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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 Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Established by Article III of the Constitution, the detailed...
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The United States ambassador to the United Kingdom (known formally as, The Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St James's) is the...
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The 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...
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In the United States, state governments are institutional units exercising functions of government at a level below that of the federal government. Each...
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The United States circuit courts were the intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system from 1789 until 1912. They were established...
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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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This is a list of capital cities of the United States, including places that serve or have served as federal, state, insular area, territorial, colonial...
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In the United States, the state legislature is the legislative branch in each of the 50 U.S. states. A legislature generally performs state duties for...
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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...
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