NOUN
- one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit'
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- Overturning a lower court, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals said the trial should go forward.
- Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond to challenge a federal judge's decision last month dismissing her defamation lawsuit against Liddy.
- The major movie studios and record labels petitioned the court to take the case after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in August that Grokster and StreamCast Networks were not liable for copyright infringement. Grokster Loss Sucks for Tech
- President Bush had nominated Mr. Haynes to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Senate Judiciary Committee had reported it out to the full Senate.
- A panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last August in favor of Jones, finding that the government may not conduct protracted, around-the-clock GPS surveillance without a warrant.
- Senate confirmation hearings for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in 1990, Alito promised in writing that he would "disqualify" himself from cases involving companies he had a financial interest in, naming Smith Barney and Vanguard mutual funds. Senators Snowe and Collins Must Work to Defeat Alito��s Supreme Court Nomination
- In the week after Christmas I signed a few more bills and appointed Roger Gregory to be the first African-American judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
- The emergency motion filed with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago says Ryan's wife went into septic shock, a complication of her treatment for what the motion describes as incurable cancer of the lungs, back, pelvis, ribs and liver. George Ryan Asks To Visit Gravely Ill Wife, Lura Lynn
- On May 31st Chief Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, upon application of the State, granted a writ of supersedeas commanding that the order of the lower court "be stayed and suspended, and that the properties of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company be left in the hands of its officers until the further order of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock
- Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that federal judges must write their own opinions and cannot simply sign an opinion that was "ghostwritten" by lawyers. Archive 2004-09-01
