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Colorado River Water Conservation District v. United States, 593 F.2d 907 (10th Cir. 1976): Abstention to prevent duplicative litigation between state and federal courts; reversed by the Supreme Court. Thompson v. Johnson County Community College, 108 F. 3d 1388 (10th Cir. 1997): Worker privacy in bathrooms or changing rooms. United States v.
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 States district courts and some U.S. administrative agencies, and their decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 ...
The Supreme Court of Maryland was known as the Court of Appeals, and the Appellate Court of Maryland was known as the Court of Special Appeals, until a 2022 constitutional amendment changed their names. Depending on the system, certain courts may serve as both trial courts and appellate courts, hearing appeals of decisions made by courts with ...
For example, a criminal defendant may be convicted in state court, and lose on "direct appeal" to higher state appellate courts, and if unsuccessful, mount a "collateral" action such as filing for a writ of habeas corpus in the federal courts. Generally speaking, "[d]irect appeal statutes afford defendants the opportunity to challenge the ...
Alaska Court of Appeals: 4 1980 Arizona Court of Appeals: 22 1965 [2] Arkansas Court of Appeals: 12 1978 California Courts of Appeal: 105 1905 Colorado Court of Appeals: 22 1891 [3] Connecticut Appellate Court: 10 1982 Florida District Courts of Appeal: 71 1957 Georgia Court of Appeals: 12 1906 Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals: 6 1979 Idaho ...
The courts uniquely “have intermediate appellate jurisdiction in both civil and criminal cases appealed from district or county c Red wave in Texas appellate courts, two flipped in Democratic ...
The trial courts are U.S. district courts, followed by United States courts of appeals and then the Supreme Court of the United States. The judicial system, whether state or federal, begins with a court of first instance, whose work may be reviewed by an appellate court, and then ends at the court of last resort, which may review the work of ...
For purposes of this category, "appellate court" is defined to include both (a) a court whose primary purpose is to exercise appellate jurisdiction and (b) a court with at least one division whose primary purpose is to exercise appellate jurisdiction. Courts that are primarily courts of first instance but do have some appellate jurisdiction ...