The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each federal judicial district. Each district covers one U.S. state or a portion of a state. There is at least one federal courthouse in each district,and many districts have more than one. District court decisions are appealed to the U.S. court of appeals for the circuit in which they reside,except for certain specialized cases that are appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit or directly to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Irving Robert Kaufman was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Clarence Cooper is an American lawyer and jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
Richard Miles Berman is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Dennis Jacobs is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second 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.
Peter Thorp Fay was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He was previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. At the time of his death,he was one of 26 federal judges to serve for fifty years.
George Benjamin Daniels is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Louis Lee Stanton is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Robert Anthony Agresta is a corporate lawyer and investor. He is the principal of Agresta Acquisitions,a private investment company and The Agresta Firm,a New York metropolitan area-based law firm. He was also the city council president in Englewood Cliffs,New Jersey from 2009 through 2012. Agresta is the son of the late Joseph A. Agresta,Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta.
Naomi Lynn Reice Buchwald is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Denise Louise Cote is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Kenneth Michael Hoyt is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Alfred James Lechner Jr. is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Consuelo Bland Marshall is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Stephanos Bibas is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as a U.S. circuit judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before his appointment to the bench,Bibas was a professor of law and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania Law School,where he also served as director of its Supreme Court clinic.
Cayuga Indian Nation of New York v. Pataki,413 F.3d 266,is an important precedent in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for the litigation of aboriginal title in the United States. Applying the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation of New York (2005),a divided panel held that the equitable doctrine of laches bars all tribal land claims sounding in ejectment or trespass,for both tribal plaintiffs and the federal government as plaintiff-intervenor.
Gershwin Allen Drain is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Heffernan v. City of Paterson,578 U.S. ___ (2016),was a United States Supreme Court case in 2016 concerning the First Amendment rights of public employees. By a 6–2 margin,the Court held that a public employee's constitutional rights might be violated when an employer,believing that the employee was engaging in what would be protected speech,disciplines them because of that belief,even if the employee did not exercise such a constitutional right.
Arthur Marvin Quattlebaum Jr. is a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. He was formerly a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina.
