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The Jurisdiction of the D.C. Circuit


United States Court of Appeals | Federal Judicial System & Jurisdiction

The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is located in Washington, D.C.. This article was most recently revised and updated by Brian Duignan.

Rethinking Federal Circuit Jurisdiction

Thirty years ago, Congress created the Federal Circuit for the overriding purpose of bringing uniformity to patent law. Yet less than half of the court's.

Reconsidering the D.C. Circuit's Proximate Cause Standard for ...

The D.C. Circuit further clarified the issue on re- mand by requiring a proximate cause relationship between the foreign injury and adverse effects on domestic ...

The Scope of the FCC's Ancillary Jurisdiction After the D.C. Circuit's ...

Tatel of the D.C. Circuit confronted this disjointed doctrine in Comcast v. FCC, in which his opinion for the court sought to reconcile all of the. Supreme ...

Rethinking Federal Circuit Jurisdiction

The. Changing Relationship Between the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit in Patent Law Jurisprudence,. 2 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 201, ...

Statement on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Decision in ... - FEC

On September 18, 2009, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued its decision in EMILY's List v. FEC, 581 F.3d 1 (DC Cir. ...

Circuit Courts of Appeals - U.S. Government : Judicial Branch

Courts of Appeals review trial court cases to determine 94 federal judicial districts are organized into 12 regional circuits, each of which has a court of ...

DC Circuit Rejects First Amendment Challenge to the DMCA and the ...

The DC Circuit held that section 1201—which prohibits the circumvention of technological protections on copyrighted works and the distribution ...

Judicial Directory | Court Jurisdiction Maps

Trial Courts · Administrative Judicial Regions · County Courts at Law - October 2023 · District Courts - October 2024 (Texas Legislative Council) · Statutory ...

Is there a realpolitik reason why the D.C. Circuit is sometimes ...

The DC Circuit Court has exclusive jurisdiction over many aspects of federal administrative law, such as immigration law and some tax law.

Federal Circuit Jurisdiction: Looking Back and Thinking Forward

§ 1338(a), which provides for exclusive federal jurisdiction over a case “arising under any Act of Congress relating to patents,” does not ...

D.C. Circuit Limits Jurisdiction over Foreign States in Breach of ...

Although the D.C. Circuit agreed that Iraq's activity was a commercial activity, the court held that the “act” at issue must be one “that the ...

D.C. Circuit Finds District Court Lacks Jurisdiction in Case Alleging ...

On July 26, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit vacated the district court's ruling, opining that the plaintiffs in a putative ...

An Oddity of Early District and Pre-1911 Circuit Courts - Judicature

The different and sometimes convoluted ways that Congress granted circuit court trial jurisdiction to the 19th-century federal district courts.

First Circuit Creates Split Regarding Federal Court Jurisdiction Over ...

The First Circuit concluded that a federal court does have personal jurisdiction over claims asserted by nonresident opt-in plaintiffs.

ANSI Statement on DC Circuit Court Decision

In a recent decision, dated September 12, 2023, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, in American Society for Testing and Materials v.

Circuit Court - Fairfax County

In civil cases, the Circuit Court has concurrent jurisdiction with the General District Court over claims from $4,501 to $50,000 and exclusive original ...

Jurisdiction Stripping and the Rule of Klein - CRS Reports

In a fractured 4-2-3 decision, the Supreme Court affirmed the D.C. Circuit's ruling. ... Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the federal court with ...

Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures United States Court ...

The Federal. Rules of Appellate Procedure and the Court's Circuit Rules, as well as any orders issued in a particular case, dictate the specific ...

Major hurdle cleared: US courts have jurisdiction to examine ...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (DC Circuit) issued a landmark ruling on 16 August 2024 with significant ...