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The United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (in case citations, N.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Aberdeen, Greenville, and Oxford. Appeals from cases brought in the Northern District of Mississippi are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (except ...
The Lafayette County Courthouse is located in Oxford, Mississippi and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1]The current structure was constructed in 1872 to replace an earlier building burned during the Civil War by Union troops directed by General Andrew Jackson Smith.
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [2] was a race riot that occurred at the University of Mississippi—commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith. [3]
Following is a list of current and former courthouses of the United States federal court system located in Mississippi.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.
The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Mississippi's ban on advertising for medical cannabis businesses. The appeals court cited that because cannabis is federally illegal, lawsuit ...
Oxford is in central Lafayette County in northern Mississippi, about 75 miles (121 km) south-southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 26.7 square miles (69.2 km 2 ), of which 26.6 square miles (68.9 km 2 ) are land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2 ), or 0.35%, is water. [ 12 ]
A man walks in front of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. The federal appeals court has temporarily delayed Mississippi officials from creating a state-run court in part of the ...
Jim M. Greenlee (born January 13, 1952) is an American attorney who has served as a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals since 2016. He previously served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi from 2001 to 2010. [1] [2]