Talk:United States district court

message: Changed the Tax Court sentence. Tax Court is where you petition for a re-determination of an assessment for deficiency or the like. This allows you to contest the assessment of tax due without paying the tax. In order to contest an assessment in District Court, you must first pay the tax: in essence the civil action in District Court is a suit for a refund. 
Right? There must be a few tax lawyers out there who have read this article. Ellsworth 14:27, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Jengod added the following sentence:  "There were also a number of pre-statehood territorial district courts."
Now then, the final sentence of the introduction reads:
Insular areas other than Puerto Rico (and Palmyra Island, which is included in the District of Hawaii) are not federal judicial districts and therefore do not have a United States District Court, although several of these areas have a court called the "district court" that operates similarly to a United States District Court.
Moreover, the Federal Judicial Center states:
[2 Stat. 283] organized the Territory of Orleans as a judicial district and authorized one judgeship for the U.S. district court.  This was the only time Congress provided a territory with a district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to the district courts in the states. 
Thus, all of the pre-statehood territorial district courts except the U.S. District Court for the District of Orleans are Article I territorial courts and therefore do not fall into the definition of U.S. district court.
— DLJessup (talk) 14:46, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico is a full Article III United States District Court and has been since 1966. Note that it took a special Act of Congress to confer this status. Newyorkbrad 19:01, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

text: The above information (with more careful quotation and citation) would be more useful in United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.  It would be undue emphasis to provide this much detail about the status of a single district in this article. --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:19, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Territorial courts

message: "In 2006, there were 268 authorized district court judgeships."  Where does this number come from?  If you do a search on fjc.gov, you get that there are 641 current active district judges (and about 400 more senior district judges).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.98.225.73 (talk) 03:42, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of courts

message: The introduction states:
"There is at least one judicial district for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. District courts in three insular areas—the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands—exercise the same jurisdiction as U.S. district courts."
Where does this leave American Samoa?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.164.205.147 (talk) 07:08, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Without a United States district court.  I think there have been attempts in Congress to create one, but nothing passsed.  --Bbb23 (talk) 23:59, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: American Samoa

message: The article currently states that the largest districts by number of judgeships are S.D.N.Y. with 28 and C.D. Cal. with 27. There's even a link to the United States Code that lays out how many judgeships each district has authorized. However, the article on the United States District Court for the Central District of California states that that court has 28 authorized judgeships, not 27. It also lists the 26 active judges and the details of two vacancies. There must be a mistake somewhere but I can't work out where. Does C.D. Cal. have 27 authorized judgeships or 28? --Lincolnite (talk) 03:16, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct number of judges

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