WordNet
n. one of the twelve federal United States courts of appeals that cover a group of states known as a `circuit'
Usage examples of "circuit court of appeals".
Judge Stephen Breyer, chief judge of the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston, who had compiled an impressive record on the bench.
On the second, Kenneth Starr appeared in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on behalf of four big tobacco companies that, at the same time, were engaged in a heated dispute with my administration over their marketing of cigarettes to teenagers and how much authority the FDA had to stop them.
Gone to the West Coast for law school, where she had excelled, clerked at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and then taken a job with the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Anthony Perri, formerly of the District Court for the State of Maryland and the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, and currently the junior member of the October fraternity.
Bush to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, the second most important court in the land next to the U.
In June 2000, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Clinton administration's decision to deny Elian Gonzalez asylum, explaining that a federal court had no authority to overrule the president's foreign policy.
While Jesse had fought a winning battle up to this point he was at the end of his resources so far as the extradition of the prisoner was concerned, for Dodge was now at liberty, pending the decisions upon the habeas corpus proceedings of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Fort Worth, and the United States Supreme Court at Washington.