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The United States District Court for the District of Michigan was established on July 1, 1836, by 5 Stat. 61, with a single judgeship. [2] The district court was not assigned to a judicial circuit, but was granted the same jurisdiction as United States circuit courts , except in appeals and writs of error, which were the jurisdiction of the ...
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 ...
The bankruptcy judge is appointed for a renewable term of 14 years by the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the applicable district is located (see 28 U.S.C. § 152). The Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure (FRBP) govern procedure in the U.S. bankruptcy courts.
Finally, on June 14, 1878, Congress authorized a separate judgeship for the Western District of Tennessee. President Rutherford B. Hayes then appointed Eli Shelby Hammond as the first judge for only the Western District of Tennessee. There are now five permanent judgeships and four magistrate judgeships for the Western District of Tennessee.
The first municipal bankruptcy legislation was enacted in 1934 during the Great Depression. [2] Although Congress attempted to draft the legislation so as not to interfere with the sovereign powers of the states guaranteed by the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Supreme Court held the 1934 Act unconstitutional as an improper interference with the sovereignty of the states. [2]
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From the late 1970s to November 12, 2013, the Circuit Court 30th District (Ingham County, home to the capital) acted as the state's courts of claim. [7] Federal courts located in Michigan. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan [8] United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan [9]
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