The courts of the United States are closely linked hierarchical systems of courts at the federal and state levels. The federal courts form the judicial...

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. Its membership, as set by the Judiciary Act of 1869,...

made by lower courts. The Supreme Court of the United States is the court of last resort. It generally hears appeals from the courts of appeals (and sometimes...

The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the...

94 active United States district and territorial courts. Each of the 50 states has between one and four district courts, and the District of Columbia and...

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The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal...

of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States....

The demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States encompass the gender, ethnicity, and religious, geographic, and economic backgrounds of the...

The following are former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California...