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  2. Federal judiciary of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the first inferior (i.e., lower) federal courts established pursuant to the Constitution and provided for the first Article III judges. [ citation needed ]

  3. Judiciary Act of 1789 - Wikipedia

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    The Act also created a United States Attorney and a United States Marshal for each judicial district. [5] The Judiciary Act of 1789 included the Alien Tort Statute, now codified as 28 U.S.C. § 1350, which provides jurisdiction in the district courts over lawsuits by aliens for torts in violation of the law of nations or treaties of the United ...

  4. Article Three of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court has interpreted this provision as enabling Congress to create inferior (i.e., lower) courts under both Article III, Section 1, and Article I, Section 8. The Article III courts, which are also known as "constitutional courts", were first created by the Judiciary Act of 1789, and are the only courts with judicial power.

  5. United States circuit court - Wikipedia

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    The United States circuit courts were the intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system from 1789 until 1912. They were established by the Judiciary Act of 1789 , [ 1 ] and had trial court jurisdiction over civil suits of diversity jurisdiction and major federal crimes.

  6. History of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Georgia, in which it held that the federal judiciary could hear lawsuits against states. Soon thereafter, responding to the concerns of several states, Congress proposed the Eleventh Amendment, which granted states immunity from certain types of lawsuits in federal courts. The Amendment was ratified in 1795.

  7. History of the United States government - Wikipedia

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    The office of Attorney General was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 to ... Marshals were given extensive authority to support the federal courts within their ...

  8. Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The power of the Supreme Court to consider appeals from state courts, rather than just federal courts, was created by the Judiciary Act of 1789 and upheld early in the court's history, by its rulings in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee (1816) and Cohens v. Virginia (1821). The Supreme Court is the only federal court that has jurisdiction over direct ...

  9. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Judiciary Act of 1789 subdivided the nation jurisdictionally into judicial districts and created federal courts for each district. The three tiered structure of this act established the basic structure of the national judiciary: the Supreme Court, 13 courts of appeals, 94 district courts, and two courts of special jurisdiction.