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Court of Appeals
A court of appeals is an appellate court generally.Court of Appeals may refer to:*Military Court of Appeals *Corte d'Assise d'Appello *Philippine Court of Appeals*High Court of Appeals of Turkey*United States courts of appeals...

is an appellate court generally.

Court of Appeals may refer to:
  • Military Court of Appeals (Israel)
  • Corte d'Assise
    Corte d'Assise
    The Corte d'Assise is an Italian court composed of two professional judges, Giudici Togati, and six lay judges, Giudici Popolari, selected from the people. The court has jurisdiction to judge the most serious crimes, such as terrorism, murder. Penalties imposed by the court can include life...

     d'Appello (Italy)
  • Philippine Court of Appeals
    Philippine Court of Appeals
    The Court of Appeals of the Philippines is the Philippines' second highest judicial court, just after the Supreme Court. The court consists of 68 Associate Justices and 1 Presiding Justice...

  • High Court of Appeals of Turkey
  • United States courts of appeals
    United States courts of appeals
    The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal court system...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
    United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces or CAAF is an Article I court that exercises worldwide appellate jurisdiction over members of the United States armed forces on active duty and other persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice...

  • United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
    United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
    The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims is a federal court of record that was established under Article I of the United States Constitution...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
    -Vacancies and pending nominations:-List of former judges:-Chief judges:Notwithstanding the foregoing, when the court was initially created, Congress had to resolve which chief judge of the predecessor courts would become the first chief judge...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit known informally as the D.C. Circuit, is the federal appellate court for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Appeals from the D.C. Circuit, as with all the U.S. Courts of Appeals, are heard on a...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Maine* District of Massachusetts...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts:* District of Delaware* District of New Jersey...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:*District of Maryland*Eastern District of North Carolina...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Louisiana* Middle District of Louisiana...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Kentucky* Western District of Kentucky...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the courts in the following districts:* Central District of Illinois* Northern District of Illinois...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Eastern District of Arkansas* Western District of Arkansas...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Colorado* District of Kansas...

  • United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* Middle District of Alabama...

  • Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
    Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
    The United States Congress established the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals in December 1971 and granted it exclusive jurisdiction to hear appeals from the decisions of the U.S. district courts in cases arising under the wage and price control program of the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970...

     (defunct)
  • Alabama Court of Appeals (which existed until 1969)
  • Alaska Court of Appeals
    Alaska Court of Appeals
    The Alaska Court of Appeals is an intermediary court of appeals in the State of Alaska's judicial department , created in 1980 by the Alaska Legislature as an additional appellate court to lessen the burden on the Alaska Supreme Court...

  • Arizona Court of Appeals
    Arizona Court of Appeals
    The Arizona Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the State of Arizona. It is divided into two divisions, with a total of twenty-two judges on the court: sixteen in Division One, based in Phoenix, and six in Division Two, based in Tucson....

  • Arkansas Court of Appeals
    Arkansas Court of Appeals
    The Arkansas Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Arkansas. It was created in 1978 by Amendment 58 of the Arkansas Constitution, which was implemented by Act 208 of the Arkansas General Assembly in 1979...

  • Colorado Court of Appeals
    Colorado Court of Appeals
    The Colorado Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Colorado. It was established by statute by the Colorado General Assembly under Article VI, Section 1 of the Constitution of Colorado.-Jurisdiction:...

  • District of Columbia Court of Appeals
    District of Columbia Court of Appeals
    The District of Columbia Court of Appeals is the highest court of the District of Columbia. Established by the United States Congress in 1970, it is equivalent to a state supreme court, except that its power derives from Article I of the U.S. Constitution rather than from the inherent sovereignty...

  • Georgia Court of Appeals
    Georgia Court of Appeals
    The Georgia Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Georgia.-Founding of the court:The genesis of the Court of Appeals began with a report by the State Bar of Georgia in 1895, suggesting that the Georgia State Legislature create a new intermediate appellate...

  • Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
    Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals
    The Hawaii State Intermediate Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court of the Hawaii State Judiciary.It shares jurisdiction over appeals from lower courts with the Hawaii State Supreme Court...

  • Idaho Court of Appeals
    Idaho Court of Appeals
    The Idaho Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Idaho. The court was created by statute by the Idaho Legislature and began operations in 1982.-Jurisdiction:...

  • Illinois Court of Appeals
  • Indiana Court of Appeals
    Indiana Court of Appeals
    The Indiana Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Indiana. It is the successor to the Indiana Appellate Court.-History:...

  • Iowa Court of Appeals
    Iowa Court of Appeals
    The Iowa Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court of the state of Iowa. Its purpose is to review appeals from trial court decisions which are referred to the court by the Iowa Supreme Court...

  • Kansas Court of Appeals
    Kansas Court of Appeals
    The Kansas Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the U.S. state of Kansas.-History:The Kansas Legislature crated the first Kansas Court of Appeals in 1895, to help the Kansas Supreme Court with an increasingly heavy caseload. The original statute that created the court...

  • Kentucky Court of Appeals
    Kentucky Court of Appeals
    The Kentucky Court of Appeals is the lower of Kentucky's two appellate courts, under the Kentucky Supreme Court. Prior to a 1975 amendment to the Kentucky Constitution the Kentucky Court of Appeals was the only appellate court in Kentucky....

  • Louisiana Court of Appeals
  • Maryland Court of Appeals
    Maryland Court of Appeals
    The Court of Appeals of Maryland is the supreme court of the U.S. state of Maryland. The court, which is composed of one chief judge and six associate judges, meets in the Robert C. Murphy Courts of Appeal Building in the state capital, Annapolis...

  • Michigan Court of Appeals
    Michigan Court of Appeals
    The Michigan Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court of the state of Michigan. It was created by the Michigan Constitution of 1963, and commenced operations in 1965...

  • Minnesota Court of Appeals
    Minnesota Court of Appeals
    The Minnesota Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Minnesota. It began operating on November 1, 1983. It is housed in the Minnesota Judicial Center in St...

  • Mississippi Court of Appeals
    Mississippi Court of Appeals
    The Mississippi Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Mississippi. The court was created by the Mississippi Legislature to relieve a backlog of cases in the Supreme Court of Mississippi, and commenced operations in 1995....

  • Missouri Court of Appeals
    Missouri Court of Appeals
    The Missouri Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state of Missouri. The court handles most of the appeals from the Missouri Circuit Courts. The court is divided into three districts: Eastern The Missouri Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court for the state...

  • Nebraska Court of Appeals
    Nebraska Court of Appeals
    The Nebraska State Court of Appeals is the intermediate level appellate court for the state of Nebraska.-Judges:*Judge Theodore Carlson*Judge William Cassel*Chief Judge Everett Inbody*Judge John Irwin*Judge Frankie Moore*Judge Richard Sievers...

  • New Mexico Court of Appeals
    New Mexico Court of Appeals
    The New Mexico Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of New Mexico.-Jurisdiction:The court has general appellate jurisdiction over the state district courts and certain state agencies...

  • New York Court of Appeals
    New York Court of Appeals
    The New York Court of Appeals is the highest court in the U.S. state of New York. The Court of Appeals consists of seven judges: the Chief Judge and six associate judges who are appointed by the Governor to 14-year terms...

  • North Carolina Court of Appeals
    North Carolina Court of Appeals
    The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state of North Carolina. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating groups of three...

  • North Dakota Court of Appeals
  • Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals
    Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals
    The Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals is one of the 12 Ohio District Courts of Appeal, the state intermediate appellate courts of Ohio. It has jurisdiction over eight counties: Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Mahoning, Monroe, and Noble.When a lower court in one of those...

  • Oregon Court of Appeals
    Oregon Court of Appeals
    The Oregon Court of Appeals is the state intermediate appellate court in the U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the Oregon Judicial Department, it has ten judges and is located in Salem...

  • South Carolina Court of Appeals
    South Carolina Court of Appeals
    The South Carolina Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of South Carolina.-Jurisdiction:The Court of Appeals hears most appeals from the Circuit Courts and Family Courts of South Carolina that do not fall within the seven classes of cases over which the South...

  • Tennessee Court of Appeals
    Tennessee Court of Appeals
    The Tennessee Court of Appeals was created in 1925 by the Tennessee General Assembly as an intermediate appellate court to hear appeals in civil cases from the Tennessee state trial courts....

  • Texas Courts of Appeals
    Texas Courts of Appeals
    The Texas Courts of Appeals are part of the Texas judicial system. In Texas, all cases appealed from the district level, both criminal and civil, may be heard by one of the fourteen Texas Courts of Appeals. The exception is for cases where the death penalty is a factor; these cases go directly to...

    • First Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Second Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Third Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Fourth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
      Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas
      The Fifth Court of Appeals of Texas is one of the 14 Texas Courts of Appeals. It currently sits in Dallas, Texas. It is simultaneously both the smallest Court of Appeals in terms of jurisdictional geographic size and the largest in terms of composition .-Jurisdiction:The Fifth Court presides...

    • Sixth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Seventh Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Eighth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Ninth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Tenth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Eleventh Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Twelfth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Thirteenth Court of Appeals of Texas
    • Fourteenth Court of Appeals of Texas
  • Utah Court of Appeals
    Utah Court of Appeals
    The Utah Court of Appeals is the intermediate-level appellate court for the state of Utah. It began operations in 1987.-Jurisdiction:The court's jurisdiction is complementary to that of the Utah Supreme Court. The Court of Appeals hears all appeals from the Juvenile and District Courts, except...

  • Court of Appeals of Virginia
    Court of Appeals of Virginia
    The Court of Appeals of Virginia, established January 1, 1985, is an eleven-judge body that hears appeals from decisions of Virginia's circuit courts and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. The Court sits in panels of at least three judges, and sometimes hears cases en banc...

  • Washington Court of Appeals
    Washington Court of Appeals
    The Washington Court of Appeals is the intermediate level appellate court for the state of Washington.The court is divided into three divisions. Division I is based in Seattle, Division II is based in Tacoma, and Division III is based in Spokane....

  • Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
    Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
    The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia is the state supreme court of West Virginia, the highest of West Virginia's state courts. It is located in the state capital, Charleston....

  • Wisconsin Court of Appeals
    Wisconsin Court of Appeals
    The Wisconsin Court of Appeals is the intermediate appellate court in the state of Wisconsin, above the Wisconsin Circuit Courts but below the Wisconsin Supreme Court...


See also

  • Court of Appeal (disambiguation)
    Court of Appeal (disambiguation)
    A court of appeal is an appellate court.Court of Appeal may refer to:In Australia:*Australian Capital Territory Court of Appeal, name used by the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory exercising its appeal jurisdiction...

  • Court of Criminal Appeals (disambiguation)
  • Court of Criminal Appeal (disambiguation)
    Court of Criminal Appeal (disambiguation)
    Court of Criminal Appeal may refer to:*Court of Criminal Appeal *Court of Criminal Appeal *Army Court of Criminal Appeals *Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals...

  • Appeal
    Appeal
    An appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court's decision....

  • State court (United States)#Nomenclature
  • List of legal topics
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