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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court in Washington, D.C. Along with the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the High Court of American Samoa, it also sometimes handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa, which has no local federal court or territorial court.
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Cooper was born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1966. [1] He received a Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1988 from Yale University, where he was also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. [1] [2] He received a Juris Doctor with distinction in 1993 from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Stanford Law Review. [1] [2] [3]
The insular areas of Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands each have one territorial court; these courts are called "district courts" and exercise the same jurisdiction as district courts, [2] [3] but differ from district courts in that territorial courts are Article IV courts, with judges who serve ten-year ...
[a] It meets at the E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, DC. The D.C. Circuit is often considered to be second only to the U.S. Supreme Court in status and prestige, and it is sometimes unofficially termed "the second highest court in the land". [2]
On March 8, 1802, by 2 Stat. 132, the Potomac District was abolished, effective July 1, 1802. Shortly thereafter, on April 29, 1802, by 2 Stat. 156, the Judiciary Act of 1802 established the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and specified that the court would have the same jurisdiction and powers as the U.S. district ...
Trevor Neil McFadden (born June 28, 1978) is an American lawyer who serves as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Previously, he was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice .
The United States District Court for the District of North Carolina was established on June 4, 1790, by 1 Stat. 126. [2] [3] On June 9, 1794, it was subdivided into three districts by 1 Stat. 395, [3] but on March 3, 1797, the three districts were abolished and the single District restored by 1 Stat. 517, [3] until April 29, 1802, when the state was again subdivided into three different ...