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The thirteenth is the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit which has nationwide jurisdiction over appeals of certain, specific subject matter, for example, patent law. Congress has authorized 179 judgeships, [ 1 ] though the total number of judges will be higher than 179 because of some judges electing senior status.
The following is a list of all current judges of the United States district and territorial courts. The list includes both "active" and "senior" judges, both of whom hear and decide cases. There are 89 districts in the 50 states, with a total of 94 districts including four territories and the District of Columbia .
Justin Reed Walker (born 1982) [1] is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 2020. He previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky from 2019 to 2020.
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 ...
The appeals court returned the case to Jones. Circuit Judge Ed Carnes, an appointee of Republican President George H.W. Bush, concurred in the decision. “If you stay on the bench long enough ...
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law violated a section of the U.S. Constitution known as the supremacy clause, which asserts that federal law takes precedence over state laws.
United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Stephen Six (of Kansas), to seat vacated by Deanell Reece Tacha. [147] Former Kansas Attorney General Six was opposed by both home state senators. Republicans claimed that he was a liberal extremist who would substitute his personal opinions for the law and the Constitution.
There are three vacancies on the U.S. courts of appeals and 40 vacancies on the U.S. district courts, [2] [3] as well as ten announced vacancies that may occur before the end of Trump's term (one for the courts of appeals and nine for district courts). [Note 1] [4] [5] Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.