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On March 3, 1863, Congress passed a law that removed the circuit court jurisdiction and transferred appeals court jurisdiction to the Tenth Circuit, and in 1866 transferred it again to the Ninth Circuit. [5] On April 18, 1877, court clerk Ralph Wilcox committed suicide in his office at the court using a Deringer pistol. [8]
The circuit court system is composed of 69 circuits, with 66 circuits serving a single county, and three circuits serving two counties each. [3] Buffalo and Pepin counties share a circuit, as do Florence and Forest counties, and Shawano and Menominee counties. [3] 26 circuit courts are served by a single judge. [3]
The circuit with the fewest appellate judges is the First Circuit, and the one with the most appellate judges is the geographically large and populous Ninth Circuit in the West. The number of judges that the U.S. Congress has authorized for each circuit is set forth by law in 28 U.S.C. § 44 , while the places where those judges must regularly ...
Johnny Hardwick, presiding judge of Montgomery County’s 15th Judicial Circuit, was allegedly assaulted and shot by his son, Khalfani A. Hardwick, 36, following a domestic dispute, according to ...
He was known as "Buddy" to most people, even on the bench, but 15th District Circuit Judge Claiborne McDonald IV took his role as a judge seriously. McDonald, 75, died Monday at Forrest General ...
Lozano et al. v. City of Hazleton, M.D. Pa. No. 3:06-cv-01586-JMM (2006) (affirmed in part by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, No. 07-3531 (September 9, 2010)). Whitewood v. Wolf This case struck down Pennsylvania's statutory ban on same-sex marriage on May 20, 2014. This was not appealed to the Third Circuit.
Initially, the court was not within any existing judicial circuit, and appeals from the court were taken directly to the United States Supreme Court. In 1837, Congress created the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, placing it in Chicago, Illinois and giving it jurisdiction over the District of Illinois, 5 Stat. 176. [5]
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