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United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts was created on 1789-09-24.
Federal trial courts are the United States District Courts.
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Two. The United States Courts of Appeal, and the United States District Courts. Military courts are federal courts of specific subject-matter and personal jurisdiction.
There are two lower federal court systems. One is the United States District Courts, of which there are 94 district and territorial courts through the United States and its territories and possessions. These are usually considered trial courts. Above the federal district courts are the United States Courts of Appeal, of which there are 13 circuits, numbered one through eleven, and the United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit and the United States Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit. These are usually considered appellate courts, to which cases decided by the district courts are, in some cases, appealed to. The 11 circuit courts and the District of Columbia circuit court are courts that have geographical areas of jurisdiction, and the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Federal Circuit is an appellate court having certain subject-matter jurisdiction.
Every state hasThe courts are a branch of government, and include: * General jurisdiction courts: ** Supreme Court of the United States** United States courts of appeals (except the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit) ** United States district courts * Courts of specific subject-matter jurisdiction: ** United States bankruptcy courts ** United States Tax Court ** United States Court of Private Land Claims ** United States Court of International Trade ** United States Court of Federal Claims ** United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims ** United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ** United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ** United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
The United States territorial courts still in existence are:United States District Court for the Northern Mariana IslandsDistrict Court of GuamDistrict Court of the Virgin IslandsTheir jurisdiction is similar to that of a United States district court, but despite the name similarity, they are not "US district courts"
The United States States District Courts, of which there are 94.
District Courts
In the federal system, United States District Courts are the lowest level of courts. In the state systems, the names of the lowest level of courts vary by state (but they are usually called district or county courts).
If you mean United States District Courts commonly referred to as "federal court", by law it is the U.S. Marshals Service.
United States District Courts are trial courts in the federal court system, and part of the Judicial branch of government.