The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the United States district courts and some U.S. administrative agencies,and their decisions can be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 "Circuits". Eleven of the circuits are numbered "First" through "Eleventh" and cover geographic areas of the United States and hear appeals from the U.S. district courts within their borders. The District of Columbia Circuit covers only Washington,DC. The Federal Circuit hears appeals from federal courts across the entire United States in cases involving certain specialized areas of law.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is the U.S. federal court of appeals that has appellate jurisdiction over the U.S. district courts for the following federal judicial districts:
Mary Murphy Schroeder is an American attorney and jurist serving as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Mark Jeremy Bennett is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Xavier Rodriguez is an American attorney and jurist serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. Rodriguez was previously a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from 2001 to 2002.
The United States District Court for the District of Hawaii is the principal trial court of the United States Federal Court System in the state of Hawaii. The court's territorial jurisdiction encompasses the state of Hawaii and the territories of Midway Atoll,Wake Island,Johnston Atoll,Kingman Reef,Palmyra Atoll,Baker Island,Howland Island,and Jarvis Island;it also occasionally handles federal issues that arise in the territory of American Samoa,which has no local federal court or territorial court. It is located at the Prince Kuhio Federal Building in downtown Honolulu,fronting the Aloha Tower and Honolulu Harbor. The court hears both civil and criminal cases as a court of law and equity. A branch of the district court is the United States Bankruptcy Court which also has chambers in the federal building. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has appellate jurisdiction over cases coming out of the District of Hawaii. The United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii represents the United States in all civil and criminal cases within her district.
Edward Charles Prado is an American diplomat who is a former United States ambassador to Argentina from 2018 to 2021. He is a former United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Patrick Errol Higginbotham is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Bump stocks or bump fire stocks are gun stocks that can be used to assist in bump firing,the act of using the recoil of a semi-automatic firearm to fire cartridges in rapid succession.
Richard Randall Clifton is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Diarmuid Fionntain O'Scannlain is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His chambers are located in Portland,Oregon.
Susan Naomi Oki Mollway is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and the first East Asian woman and Japanese-American woman ever appointed to a life-time position on the federal bench.
Helen Patricia Willey Gillmor is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Shiro Kashiwa was an American lawyer and judge who was the first Attorney General of Hawaii to be appointed after it became a state in 1959. He served as a judge of the United States Court of Claims,then as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington,D.C. from 1982 to 1986. He was the first federal judge of Japanese-American descent,the first Asian American judge on the Federal Circuit and was a member of the Jōdo Shinshūsect of Buddhism.
Marina Garcia Marmolejo is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Derrick Kahala Watson is an American lawyer who serves as the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
John Campbell "Cam" Barker is an American federal judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
Julius Ness "Jay" Richardson is an American judge and lawyer who serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina.
Eric Earl Murphy is an American lawyer and jurist serving since 2019 as a U.S. circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He previously served as the Solicitor General of Ohio from 2013 to 2019.
Garland v. Cargill,602 U.S. 406 (2024),was a United States Supreme Court case regarding the classification of bump stocks as "machine guns" under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) by the United States Bureau of Alcohol,Tobacco,Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2018. In a 6–3 decision,the Supreme Court ruled that bump stocks are not machine guns for purposes of the NFA,vacating the ATF rule and finding that the ATF exceeded its statutory authority.
