United States District Court, in the United States, any of the basic trial-level courts of the federal judicial system. The courts, which exercise both criminal and civil jurisdiction, are based in 94 judicial districts throughout the United States. Each
Split Decision: Florida Districts Clash Over Insurance Coverage for Unperformed Repairs Posted onOctober 16, 2024byTiffany Bustamante In the recent decisionUniversal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Qureshi, the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal held that homeowners cannot recover replacement ...
The purpose of our study is to quantify race-based disparate impact and differential treatment at the national level and at the level of individual federal judicial districts. We analyze over one-half million sentencing records publicly available from the United States Sentencing Commission database, ...
Despite the roll-back of many measures that ensured racial equality in the South, the former-Confederate states benefited to some extent from Reconstruction. Southern state courts were reorganized and judicial procedures were improved. The first statewide public schools, state-run hospitals and asylums ...
The Supreme Court of the U.S. just dismissed a State of Texas lawsuit that contested validity of the 2020 election results in four battleground states. The said dismissal was not based on facts, evidence, and valid judicial reasoning but on procedural technicalities. The plaintiffs, according th...
Venue for Offshore Environmental Crimes: The Seaward Limits of the Federal Judicial DistrictsM. Benjamin Cowan
Citizenship Status and Arrest Patterns for Violent and Narcotic-Related Offenses in Federal Judicial Districts along the U.S./Mexico BorderCitizenshipArrestCriminal immigrantGenderMedia reports routinely reference the drug-related violence in Mexico, linking crime in communities along the Southwest U.S. ...
Let the Jury Fit the Crime: Increasing Native American Jury Pool Representation in Federal Judicial Districts with Indian Country Criminal JurisdictionJury SelectionCriminal ProcedureIndian Country ProcedureFederal law allocates jurisdiction to prosecute and punish crimes committed in Indian country based on ...
Federal district courts typically draw jury pools from large, multi-county areas; states from smaller judicial districts; and tribes from reservation communities. The three sovereigns, thus, will look to different "communities" from which to draw their jury pools, and that will often result in ...
Citizenship Status and Arrest Patterns for Violent and Narcotic-Related Offenses in Federal Judicial Districts along the U.S./Mexico Borderdoi:10.1007/s12103-016-9375-1CitizenshipArrestCriminal immigrantGenderMedia reports routinely reference the drug-related violence in Mexico, linking crime in ...