United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia
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The United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia (in case citation
s, N.D. W.Va.) is a federal court in the Fourth Circuit
(except for patent
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit
).
, Elkins
, Martinsburg
and Wheeling
.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.
Case citation
Case citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...
s, N.D. W.Va.) is a federal court in 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...
(except for patent
Patent
A patent is a form of intellectual property. It consists of a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for the public disclosure of an invention....
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act
Tucker Act
Through the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....
, which are appealed to 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...
).
Organization of the court
Under 28 U.S.C. § 129, West Virginia consists of two federal judicial districts, each with statutory divisions. The Northern District comprises the counties of Barbour, Berkeley, Braxton, Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Grant, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Webster, and Wetzel. Court for the Northern District is held at ClarksburgClarksburg, West Virginia
Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area...
, Elkins
Elkins, West Virginia
Elkins is a city in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. The community was incorporated in 1890 and named in honor of Stephen Benton Elkins , a U.S. Senator from West Virginia. The population was 7,032 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Randolph County...
, Martinsburg
Martinsburg, West Virginia
Martinsburg is a city in the Eastern Panhandle region of West Virginia, United States. The city's population was 14,972 at the 2000 census; according to a 2009 Census Bureau estimate, Martinsburg's population was 17,117, making it the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle and the eighth largest...
and Wheeling
Wheeling, West Virginia
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...
.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of West Virginia represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.
Current judges
- As of December 18, 2006, a vacancy exists in the Northern District of West Virginia due to the death of Judge W. Craig Broadwater. On May 19, 2011, President Obama nominated Gina Marie GrohGina Marie GrohGina Marie Groh is currently a Judge on the 23rd Judicial Circuit Court of West Virginia, a position she has held since 2006. She is also a judicial nominee for the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia...
to the seat. Her nomination is pending before the U.S. Senate.
Former judges
See also
- Courts of West VirginiaCourts of West VirginiaCourts of West Virginia include:State courts of West Virginia*Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia**West Virginia Circuit Courts ***West Virginia Family Courts***West Virginia Magistrate Courts***West Virginia Municipal Courts...
- List of United States federal courthouses in West Virginia