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The California Court of Appeal for the Fifth District is located in Fresno. Its jurisdiction covers the following counties: Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, and Tuolumne. [1] It currently has 10 justices. Justices: Brad R. Hill, Administrative Presiding Justice; Bert Levy, Associate Justice
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (in case citations, 5th Cir.) is one of the 13 United States courts of appeals. It has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts in the following federal judicial districts: Eastern District of Louisiana; Middle District of Louisiana; Western District of Louisiana
That is, one of the parties in the case could appeal a decision of a court of appeals to the Supreme Court, and it had to accept the case. The right of automatic appeal for most types of decisions of a court of appeals was ended by an Act of Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1925, which also reorganized many other things in the federal court system.
The 5th Circuit is seen by many as the most conservative U.S. appeals court while the 9th Circuit, which covers California, has the reputation of being among the most liberal.
Luis A. Lavin (1985): [63] First openly LGBT male appointed as a Judge of the Second District Court of Appeals in California (2015) M. Bruce Smith (1988): [64] First African American male appointed as a Judge of the Fifth District Court of Appeals in California (2014)
On August 20, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger nominated Poochigian to become a justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fifth Appellate District. On September 24, 2009, Poochigian was unanimously confirmed to the court by California's Commission on Judicial Appointments, consisting in this case of Chief Justice Ronald M. George , Fifth ...
The 9-8 ruling by the conservative-majority New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the rules approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ran afoul of federal ...
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated late Thursday a nationwide injunction that had been issued this month by a federal judge in Texas who had concluded the Corporate ...