Federal District Court

As a federal court circles in are the United States geographical entities designated by the Congress were built to better manage the federal jurisdiction. Each district contains several federal district courts as the first instance and a federal appeals court , which is responsible for appeals against judgments of the federal district courts in the same district.

There are currently eleven numbered circles for the states and suburbs and one circle for the capital district .

In addition, the Federal Appeals Court for the Federal District has existed since 1982, which, in contrast to the other federal appeals courts, is not responsible for cases from a specific geographical area, but deals nationwide with all appeal cases in certain specialist areas (including patent law, international trade, veterans' affairs).

The following list contains all of the current federal judicial districts, including the states and territories they cover. The name of the city in which the appeals court has its seat is in brackets.

Capital District ( Washington ) District of Columbia 1st district ( Boston ) Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire Puerto Rico Rhode Island 2nd district ( New York ) Connecticut new York Vermont 3rd Circle ( Philadelphia ) Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania American Virgin Islands 4th Circle ( Richmond ) Maryland North Carolina South carolina Virginia West Virginia

5th Circle ( New Orleans ) Louisiana Mississippi Texas 6th Circle ( Cincinnati ) Kentucky Michigan Ohio Tennessee 7th Circle ( Chicago ) Illinois Indiana Wisconsin 8th Circle ( St. Louis ) Arkansas Iowa Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota

9th Circle ( San Francisco ) Alaska Arizona California Guam Hawaii Idaho Montana Nevada Northern Mariana Islands Oregon Washington 10th Circle ( Denver ) Colorado Kansas New Mexico Oklahoma Utah Wyoming 11th Circle ( Atlanta ) Alabama Florida Georgia Federal District ( Washington ) nationwide competent court