Circuit Court

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

a United States next in rank to the United States Supreme Court. In 1920 there were nine circuits, each consisting of several States, and each is allotted to one of the nine justices of the Supreme Court, who must attend at least one term of court in each district of his circuit every two years. Courts may be held at the same time in different districts of the same circuit. These courts formerly had original jurisdiction, concurrently with those of the States, in civil suits in law or equity for more than $500 between citizens of different States, or where an alien is a party or the United States plaintiff, as well as in revenue cases and some in bankruptcy, and in some criminal cases concerning persons denied citizenship under State laws, or offenses against the United States. Their appelaga late jurisdiction extended to admiralty and maritime cases, to civil actions-referred from the district courts, to patent cases, and some others. Since 1911 these courts, by an act of Congress, have only an appellate jurisdiction. The judges each circuit and the justices of the Supreme Court for the circuit constitute a Circuit Court of Appeals. The First Circuit consists of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Porto Rico. Second-Connecticut, New York, Vermont. Third-Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Fourth-Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, a, West Virginia. Fifth-Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Canal Zone. Sixth-Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee. Seventh-Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin. Eighth-Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Ne Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming. Ninth-Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. See CREDIT, CIRCULAR NOTES. LETTER OF.