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.
Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986 until 1991. She was the Court's first female chief judge and its first woman to be elevated,having been appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. From 1999 to 2001,Wald was a Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It also ranks first in other ranking systems of law reviews. It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington:Adams,Asotin,Benton,Chelan,Columbia,Douglas,Ferry,Franklin,Garfield,Grant,Kittitas,Klickitat,Lincoln,Okanogan,Pend Oreille,Spokane,Stevens,Walla Walla,Whitman,and Yakima.
The University at Buffalo School of Law is the law school of the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1887,and affiliated with Niagara University until 1891,it is the State University of New York (SUNY) system's only law school.
The Philadelphia High School for Girls,also known as Girls' High,is a public college preparatory magnet high school for girls in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
James Skelly Wright was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Sandra Lea Lynch is an American lawyer who serves as a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is the first woman to serve on that court. Lynch served as chief judge of the First Circuit from 2008 to 2015.
Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson LLP,is an international law firm headquartered in New York City. The firm also has offices in Washington,D.C.,London,Frankfurt,Germany,and Brussels,Belgium;it has more than 750 attorneys worldwide.
Susan Pia Graber is an American attorney and jurist. She is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A native of Oklahoma,she was the 90th justice of the Oregon Supreme Court from 1990 to 1998. She served on the Oregon Court of Appeals from 1988 to 1990.
Michael R. Bromwich is an American litigation attorney who was the inspector general of the U.S. Justice Department from 1994 to 1999. He was appointed as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,Regulation and Enforcement on June 15,2010,in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He served in that capacity until the dissolution of the agency on October 1,2011.
Audrey Strauss is an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from June 20,2020,to October 10,2021. Previously the deputy U.S. Attorney,Strauss became the acting U.S. Attorney after the previous U.S. attorney,Geoffrey Berman,was fired by President Donald Trump at the request of Attorney General William Barr. On December 22,2020,the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York,effective January 16,2021,and pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 546(d),unanimously appointed Strauss as U.S. Attorney for an indeterminate term.
David Herrera Urias is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Nina Nin-Yuen Wang is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. She previously served as a United States magistrate judge of the same court.
Havens Realty Corp. v. Coleman,455 U.S. 363 (1982),was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that an organization may sue in its own right if it has been directly injured,for example through a "drain on the organization's resources",and that so-called "testers",individuals who sought to determine if a company was in violation of the law,may have standing in their own right.
Stanley Edmund Woodward Jr. is an American attorney with Brand Woodward Law. His clients have included those subpoenaed or convicted for the January 6 United States Capitol attack,and aides to Donald Trump.
