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Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Massachusetts.Each entry indicates the name of the building along with an image, if available, its location and the jurisdiction it covers, [1] the dates during which it was used for each such jurisdiction, and, if applicable the person for whom it was named, and the date of renaming.
Other social leaders who came from Leicester include Charles Adams, military officer and foreign minister, born in town; [7] Emory Washburn, Harvard Law professor and governor of Massachusetts from 1854–1855; and Samuel May, a pastor and active abolitionist in the 1860s, whose house was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He also served as ...
The court's main building is the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on Fan Pier in South Boston. Appeals from the District of Massachusetts are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit , also located in the Moakley courthouse (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act ...
The Massachusetts Trial Court was created by Chapter 478 of the Acts of 1978 that reorganized the courts into seven Trial Court Departments. Administrative Justices became responsible for the administration of each court department and as part of the overhaul, all judges became state judges with the same salary and benefits.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court [1] Massachusetts Appeals Court [2] Massachusetts Trial Court [3] Massachusetts Superior Court (14 divisions) [4] Massachusetts District Court [5] Massachusetts Boston Municipal Court [6] Massachusetts Land Court [7] Massachusetts Housing Court [8] Massachusetts Juvenile Court [9] Massachusetts Probate and ...
Map of Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex district, based on the 2010 United States census. Massachusetts House of Representatives' 1st Essex district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of Essex County. [1]
It has a 40-member upper house (Massachusetts Senate) and a 160-member lower house (Massachusetts House of Representatives). Descended from the colonial legislature, the first Massachusetts General Court met in October 1780 and consisted of one-year elected terms for both houses.