United States federal judicial circuits

As a federal court circles geographical units are referred to in the United States that were established by Congress to better manage the federal jurisdiction. Each district includes several federal district courts as first instance and a federal appeals court, which has jurisdiction to hear appeals against decisions of the federal district courts in the same district.

Currently there are eleven numbered circles for the states and possessions and a circle for the Capital District.

The following list contains all current federal court circles with thereunder states and territories. In parentheses, the name of the city, in which the associated appeals court has its seat.

Capital District ( Washington)

• District of Columbia

1 Circle ( Boston)

• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Puerto Rico
• Rhode Iceland

Second circuit ( New York)

• Connecticut
• New York
• Vermont

3 Circle (Philadelphia )

• Delaware
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• U.S. Virgin Islands

4th district (Richmond )

• Maryland
• North Carolina
• South Carolina
• Virginia
• West Virginia

5th District (New Orleans)

• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Texas

6th District ( Cincinnati )

• Kentucky
• Michigan
• Ohio
• Tennessee

7th district ( Chicago)

• Illinois
• Indiana
• Wisconsin

8th district (St. Louis)

• Arkansas
• Iowa
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• Nebraska
• North Dakota
• South Dakota

9th District (San Francisco)

• Alaska
• Arizona
• California
• Guam
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Montana
• Nevada
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Oregon
• Washington

10th District ( Denver)

• Colorado
• Kansas
• New Mexico
• Oklahoma
• Utah
• Wyoming

11th District (Atlanta )

• Alabama
• Florida
• Georgia

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