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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (in case citations, 7th Cir.) is the U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit (in case citations, 10th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district...
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    The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district...
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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 courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the...
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    the Chicago Eight. Appeals from the Northern District of Illinois are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for...
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  • New Albany. Appeals from the Southern District of Indiana are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims...
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    States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to...
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    jurisdiction. The court is under the auspices of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, although patent claims and claims against the federal...
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    the southern third of the state of Illinois. Appeals from the Southern District of Illinois are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh...
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    Frank Easterbrook (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    has served as a United States circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 1985. He was the Seventh Circuit's chief judge from...
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  • Brendan Dassey (category American people convicted of murder)
    was delayed during appeal. In June 2017, a divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the magistrate judge's...
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  • the Sixth Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit United States Court of...
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  • to the newly created United States circuit courts of appeals, which are now known as the United States courts of appeals. On January 1, 1912, the effective...
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    Diane S. Sykes (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    who serves as the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She served as a justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court from 1999 to...
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    of the 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....
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    Michael Y. Scudder (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    (born January 9, 1971) is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. In 1989, Scudder graduated from...
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    of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Amy Coney Barrett for Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D...
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    Candace Jackson-Akiwumi (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since July 2021. She was previously a staff attorney at the...
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    Nancy L. Maldonado (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2024. She previously served as a United States district...
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  • prosecutors appealed this decision. Eight months later, an en banc panel of seven judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled...
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    Otto Kerner Jr. (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    appointed a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was forced to step down from the bench after...
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  • jeopardy. The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled that the original trial presided by Judge Frank Wilson was a sham – because the acquittal...
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    Doris Pryor (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2022. She served as a United States magistrate...
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  • Thumbnail for Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination
    death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. At the time of her nomination, Barrett was a Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago...
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    Diane Wood (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. After working in private practice and the executive branch, Wood became the third woman...
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  • David Hamilton (judge) (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He was previously a United States district judge of the United...
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    Ilana Rovner (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Rovner was the first woman appointed to the Seventh Circuit...
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    John Z. Lee (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He served as a United States district judge of the United States...
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    William J. Bauer (category Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit)
    United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and previously a United States district judge of...
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