The federal court seestem divides each state principal, the District of Columbia, an Puerto Rico, intae ane or mair federal judicial destricts. A Unitit States destrict court and a bankruptcy court are locatit in each. There are also regional federal judicial circuits, each consistin o a group o states (except for the District of Columbia Circuit, which consists anerly o the federal destrict, an the Federal Circuit, whose jurisdiction is based on specific subject matter insteid o geografie); Puerto Rico an the Unitit States territorial courts are assigned tae circuits an aw. Each circuit haes a Unitit States court o appeals.