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| x Supreme Court of the United States |
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United States of America |
The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States. It has ultimate (but largely discretionary) appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and over state court cases involving issues of federal law, and original...
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John Roberts | Chief Justice of the United States |
| John Paul Stevens | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | ||||
| Clarence Thomas | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States | ||||
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| x High Court of Australia |
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Australia |
The High Court of Australia is the supreme court in the Australian court hierarchy and the final court of appeal in Australia. It has both original and appellate jurisdiction, has the power of judicial review over laws passed by the Parliament of...
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| x Supreme Court of Victoria |
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Victoria |
The Supreme Court of Victoria is the superior court for the State of Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 1852, and is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited jurisdiction within the state. Those courts lying below it include the...
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| x United States district court |
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The United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States...
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| x High Court of Justice |
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The High Court of Justice (usually known simply as the High Court) is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. It is also known as the High Court of England and Wales and abbreviated by...
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Frank Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman | ||
| John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge | |||||
| David Neuberger | High Court Judge | ||||
| David Neuberger | Supervisory Chancery Judge for the Midland, Wales and Chester and Western Circuits | ||||
| Igor Judge | |||||
| x Court of Appeal of England and Wales |
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England and Wales |
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales is the second most senior court in the English legal system, with only the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom above it. Established in 1875, the Court and its staff of 37 Lords Justices of Appeal hear both...
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Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond | Lord Justice of Appeal |
| David Neuberger | Master of the Rolls | ||||
| David Neuberger | Lord Justice of Appeal | ||||
| Maurice Gibson | Lord Justice of Appeal | ||||
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| x Supreme Court of Canada |
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Canada |
The Supreme Court of Canada (French: Cour suprême du Canada) is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions...
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Marshall Rothstein | |
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| Beverley McLachlin | |||||
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| x United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit |
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The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) 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...
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Warren E. Burger | ||
| x Supreme Court of Virginia |
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The Supreme Court of Virginia is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It primarily hears appeals from the trial-level city and county Circuit Courts, as well as the criminal law, family law and administrative law cases that go through...
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| x Oregon Supreme Court |
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Oregon |
The Oregon Supreme Court (OSC) is the highest state court in the U.S. state of Oregon. The only court that may reverse or modify a decision of the Oregon Supreme Court is the Supreme Court of the United States. The OSC holds court at the Oregon...
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Paul De Muniz | |
| x Crown Court |
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The Crown Court of England and Wales is, together with the High Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, one of the constituent parts of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. It is the higher court of first instance in criminal cases; however,...
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| x International Criminal Court |
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The International Criminal Court (commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt) is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression (although it cannot, until at least 2017,...
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| x International Court of Justice |
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The International Court of Justice (French: Cour internationale de Justice; commonly referred to as the World Court or ICJ) is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands. Its main...
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| x European Court of Justice |
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The European Court of Justice (officially the Court of Justice of the European Union) is the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law. As a part of the Court of Justice of the European Union institution it is tasked with...
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Vassilios Skouris | ||
| x Supreme Court of India | India |
The Supreme Court of India is the highest judicial forum and final court of appeal as established by Part V, Chapter IV of the Constitution of India. According to the Constitution of India, the role of the Supreme Court is that of a federal court...
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Sarosh Homi Kapadia | ||
| x Court of Session |
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Scotland |
The Court of Session (Cùirt an t-Seisein in Scottish Gaelic) is the supreme civil court of Scotland, and constitutes part of the College of Justice. It sits in Parliament House in Edinburgh and is both a court of first instance and a court of appeal...
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Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton | |
| x Court of Chancery |
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England and Wales |
The Court of Chancery was a court of equity in England and Wales that followed a set of loose rules to avoid the slow pace of change and possible harshness (or "inequity") of the common law. The Chancery had jurisdiction over all matters of equity,...
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| x Supreme Court of Pakistan | Pakistan |
The Supreme Court of Pakistan (Urdu: عدالت عظمیٰ پاکستان) is the highest court in the judicial hierarchy of Pakistan, the final arbiter of legal and constitutional disputes. The Supreme Court has a permanent seat in Islamabad. It also has a number...
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| x Supreme Court of New South Wales |
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New South Wales |
The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian State of New South Wales. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters, and hears the most serious criminal matters. Whilst the Supreme Court is the...
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| x Federal Court of Australia |
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Australia |
The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court of record which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary criminal matters. Cases are...
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| x Supreme Court of California |
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California |
The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.
Under the...
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Joyce L. Kennard | |
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| Marvin R. Baxter | |||||
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| x European Court of Human Rights |
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR; French: Cour européenne des droits de l’homme) in Strasbourg is a supra-national court established by the European Convention on Human Rights and hears complaints that a contracting state has violated the...
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Nicolas Bratza | ||
| x Permanent Court of Arbitration |
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), is an international organization based in The Hague in the Netherlands.
The court was established in 1899 as one of the acts of the first Hague Peace Conference, which makes it the oldest institution for...
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| x United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit |
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (in case citations, 9th Cir.) is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
It also has appellate jurisdiction over the following...
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| x Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland |
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Switzerland |
The Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland (German: Bundesgericht; French: Tribunal fédéral; Italian: Tribunale federale; Romansh: Tribunal federal) is the supreme court of Switzerland. It is located in Lausanne.
According to the Constitution of...
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| x United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit |
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York, and Vermont, and the court has appellate...
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Sonia Sotomayor | |||
| x New York Court of Appeals |
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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. The Chief Judge of the...
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Jonathan Lippman | ||
| x New Jersey Supreme Court |
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New Jersey |
The Supreme Court of New Jersey is the highest court in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It has existed in three different forms under the three different state constitutions since the independence of the state in 1776, but until the Constitution of...
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| x Arches Court |
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The Arches Court, presided over by the Dean of Arches, is an ecclesiastical court of the Church of England covering the Province of Canterbury. Its equivalent in the Province of York is the Chancery Court.
The Court of Arches is the provincial court...
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| x Supreme Court of Chile |
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Chile |
The Supreme Court of Chile is the highest court in Chile. It also administrates the lower courts in the nation. It is located in the capital Santiago.
In the Chilean system, the court lacks the broader power of judicial review — it cannot set...
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| x Oklahoma Supreme Court |
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Oklahoma |
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is one of the two highest judicial bodies in the U.S. state of Oklahoma and leads the Oklahoma Court System, the judicial branch of the government of Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court meets in the Wiley Post Building...
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Steven W. Taylor | |
| x Federal Court of Canada | Canada |
The Federal Court of Canada was a national court of Canada that heard some types of disputes arising under the central government's legislative jurisdiction. The Court — which is now defunct — consisted of two divisions, a Trial Division and an...
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| x Minnesota Supreme Court |
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Minnesota |
The Minnesota Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Minnesota and consists of seven members. The court was first assembled as a three-judge panel in 1849 when Minnesota was still a territory. The first members were lawyers from...
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| x Tennessee Supreme Court | Tennessee |
The Tennessee Supreme Court is the state supreme court of the state of Tennessee. Cornelia Clark is the current Chief Justice.
Unlike other states, in which the state attorney general is directly elected or appointed by the governor or state...
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| x Texas Supreme Court | Texas |
The Supreme Court of Texas is the court of last resort for non-criminal matters (including juvenile delinquency which the law considers to be a civil matter and not criminal) in the state of Texas. A different court, the Texas Court of Criminal...
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| x Washington Supreme Court |
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Washington |
The Washington Supreme Court is the highest court in the judiciary of the U.S. state of Washington. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and eight Justices. Members of the Court are elected to six-year terms. Justices must retire at the end of...
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| x Florida Supreme Court | Florida |
The Supreme Court of the State of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida. The Supreme Court consists of seven judges: the Chief Justice and six Justices who are appointed by the Governor to 6-year terms and remain in office if...
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Joseph B. Lancaster | ||
| x United States circuit court |
The United States circuit courts were the original intermediate level courts of the United States federal court system. They were established by the Judiciary Act of 1789. They had trial court jurisdiction over civil suits of diversity jurisdiction...
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| x Vermont Supreme Court |
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Vermont |
The Vermont Supreme Court is the highest judicial authority of the U.S. state of Vermont and is one of seven state courts of Vermont.
The Court consists of a chief justice and four associate justices; the Court mostly hears appeals of cases that...
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Paul Reiber | |
| x United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
The court is composed of sixteen judges and is based at the...
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| x Family Court of Australia |
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Australia |
The Family Court of Australia is a superior Australian federal court of record which deals with family law matters. The Family Court of Australia is housed in the Commonwealth Law Courts Building on the corner of La Trobe Street and William Street...
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| x Federal Magistrates' Court of Australia | Australia |
The Federal Magistrates Court (also known as the Federal Magistrates Service or the Federal Magistrates Court of Australia) is an Australian court established by the Federal Magistrates Act 1999 (Cth), although its first officers were not appointed...
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| x United States District Court for the District of Vermont |
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The United States District Court for the District of Vermont (in case citations, D. Vt.) is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the federal district of Vermont. The court has locations in Brattleboro, Burlington, and Rutland. The Court...
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| x Vancouver Downtown Community Court | |||||
| x Svea Court of Appeal |
The Svea Court of Appeal (Svea hovrätt in Swedish), located in Stockholm, is one of six appellate courts in the Swedish legal system. It was founded in 1614 and was the highest court in Sweden until 1789, when the Supreme Court of Sweden was...
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Sten Rudholm | |||
| x New Hampshire Superior Court | New Hampshire |
The New Hampshire Superior Court is the statewide court of general jurisdiction which provides jury trials in civil and criminal cases. There are 11 locations of the Superior Court, one for each county and two in Hillsborough County.
The Superior...
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| x New Hampshire Supreme Court |
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court is the supreme court of the U. S. state of New Hampshire and sole appellate court of the state. The Supreme Court is seated in the state capital, Concord. The Court is composed of a Chief Justice and four Associate...
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| x New Hampshire District Court |
The New Hampshire Circuit Court District Division is the "community court" of the U.S. state of New Hampshire, made up of one circuit for each County and is located in 36 cities and towns. The District Division has jurisdiction over all juvenile...
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| x New Hampshire Probate Court |
New Hampshire Probate Court in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, is the court which has jurisdiction over trusts, wills, and estates, adoptions, termination of parental rights, name changes, guardianship of incapacitated persons, guardianship of...
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| x Court of the Lord Lyon |
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The Court of the Lord Lyon, also known as the Lyon Court or Lyon Office, is a standing court of law which regulates heraldry in Scotland. Like the College of Arms in England it maintains the register of grants of arms, known as the Public Register...
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| x Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation |
The Supreme Court of the Navajo Nation is the highest judicial Native American authority of the Navajo Nation, the largest American Indian nation in the United States. According to Harvard Law School, "the judicial system of the Navajo Nation is the...
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| x United States District Court for the District of New Mexico |
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (in case citations, D.N.M.) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the state of New Mexico. Court is held in Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Las Vegas, Roswell, Santa Fe,...
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Martha Vázquez | |||
| x United States District Court for the Central District of California |
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The United States District Court for the Central District of California (in case citations, C.D. Cal.; commonly referred to as the CDCA or CACD) serves over 18 million people in southern and central California, making it the largest federal judicial...
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| x United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania |
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The United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (in case citations, M.D. Pa.) is district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania. The court was created in 1901 by subdividing the...
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| x California Court of Appeal |
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The California Courts of Appeal are the state intermediate appellate courts in the U.S. state of California. The state is geographically divided into six appellate districts. The Courts of Appeal form the largest state-level intermediate appellate...
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| x United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
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The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (in case citations, D.D.C.) is a federal district court. Appeals from the District are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (except for patent...
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| x Iowa Supreme Court |
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Iowa |
The Iowa Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of Iowa. As constitutional head of the Iowa Judicial Branch, the Court is composed of a Chief Justice and six Associate Justices.
The Court holds its regular sessions in Des Moines in the...
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Marsha K. Ternus | |
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| Michael J. Streit | |||||
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| x United States District Court for the Southern District of New York |
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The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case citations, S.D.N.Y.) is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ...
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| x New York Supreme Court |
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The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the state court system of New York, United States. There is a supreme court in each of New York State's 62 counties, although some smaller counties share...
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