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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida (in case citations, M.D. Fla.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit ). The District was established on July 30, 1962, with parts of the ...
The court's jurisdiction comprises the nine counties of Broward, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie. The district includes the South Florida metropolitan area of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach. It comprises 15,197 square miles (39,360 km 2) and approximately 6.3 million people.
The Fifth District Court of Appeal was created by the 1979 session of the Florida Legislature. [1] The addition of the Florida Sixth District Court of Appeal in 2023 changed the caseload of the Fifth DCA. Previously, the Fifth DCA handled cases from the following counties and circuit courts: Lake, Marion, Sumter, Citrus & Hernando (Fifth ...
The district courts of appeal ( DCAs) are the intermediate appellate courts of the Florida state court system. There are currently six DCAs: The First District Court of Appeal is headquartered in Tallahassee. The Second District Court of Appeal is temporarily headquartered in Tampa until the Pinellas Courthouse is completed in St. Petersburg. [1]
The only courts that can direct the judge in that case, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, to rule in a particular manner are the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Trump was ...
The Florida State Courts System consists of: The Florida State Supreme Court; Six District Courts of Appeal, which are the state's intermediate appellate courts; 20 circuit courts, which handle civil cases involving more than $50,000 and criminal felony cases; and. 67 county courts (one for each of Florida's 67 counties), which handle civil ...
Glasser v. United States, 315 U.S. 60 (1942) A defense lawyer's conflict of interest arising from a simultaneous representation of codefendants violates the Assistance of Counsel Clause of the Sixth Amendment. Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 (1942) Indigent defendants may be denied counsel when prosecuted by a state.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (in case citations, N.D. Fla.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit ). The District was established on February 23, 1847, with the division ...