The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. The courts of appeals are divided into 13 "Circuits". Eleven of the circuits are numbered "First" through "Eleventh" and cover geographic areas of the United States and hear appeals from the U.S. district courts within their borders. The District of Columbia Circuit covers only Washington,DC. The Federal Circuit hears appeals from federal courts across the United States in cases involving certain specialized areas of law. The courts of appeals also hear appeals from some administrative agency decisions and rulemaking,with by far the largest share of these cases heard by the D.C. Circuit. Appeals from decisions of the courts of appeals can be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is a nonpartisan international affairs think tank headquartered in Washington D.C.,with operations in Europe,South and East Asia,and the Middle East as well as the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie,the organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between countries,reducing global conflict,and promoting active international engagement between the United States and countries around the world. It engages leaders from multiple sectors and across the political spectrum.
Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986 until 1991. She was the Court's first female chief judge and its first woman to be elevated,having been appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. From 1999 to 2001,Wald was a Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum,a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the following counties of the state of Washington:Adams,Asotin,Benton,Chelan,Columbia,Douglas,Ferry,Franklin,Garfield,Grant,Kittitas,Klickitat,Lincoln,Okanogan,Pend Oreille,Spokane,Stevens,Walla Walla,Whitman,and Yakima.
The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund,Inc. is a leading United States civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.
The University at Buffalo School of Law is a graduate professional school at the University at Buffalo. Founded in 1887,and affiliate with Niagara University until 1891,it is the State University of New York (SUNY) system's only law school. U.S. News &World Report ranks the University at Buffalo School of Law 94th (tied) in the nation for 2022. The University at Buffalo School of Law is No. 1 in Thomson Reuter's "Super Lawyers" ranking of law graduates practicing in Upstate New York,which includes 54 of the 62 counties in New York State. This is in addition to the UB Law School's 2010 national ranking,where it placed 48th out of the 180 law schools in the country that produced Super Lawyers,a measure which examines "twelve indicators of professional achievement". Also,Malcolm Gladwell,in the New Yorker Magazine,devised a formula that ranks UB within the top 50 whereas Reuters ranks UB Law as 48th overall in the nation.
William E. Hurwitz,M.D.,was a Virginia based pain management physician who was prosecuted and convicted by the United States Government in 2004 for excessively prescribing addictive opioid pain medication to patients,some of whom subsequently abused and redistributed their medications on the black market. Before his conviction,Hurwitz had a series of running battles with the Virginia Board of Medicine which,in 2003 found fault with some of his prescriptions but also held that all were written "in good faith".
James Skelly Wright was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Fried,Frank,Harris,Shriver &Jacobson LLP,is an international law firm headquartered in New York City. The firm also has offices in Washington,D.C.,London,Frankfurt,and Brussels,and has more than 500 attorneys worldwide. The firm is regarded as a modern white-shoe law firm and leads on many complex financial and litigious matters.
Frank Harris Hiscock was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1917 to 1926.
E. Grady Jolly is a senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. His chambers are in Jackson,Mississippi.
Joseph Anthony Greenaway Jr. is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 2010 to 2023. He also previously sat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1996 to 2010. On February 9,2010,he was confirmed to his seat on the Third Circuit,filling the vacancy created by Justice Samuel Alito's elevation to the United States Supreme Court. Greenaway had been mentioned as a possible candidate for the Supreme Court by President Barack Obama.
Michael R. Bromwich is an American litigation attorney. He was appointed as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,Regulation and Enforcement on June 15,2010,in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He served in that capacity until the dissolution of the agency on October 1,2011.
David Herrera Urias is an American lawyer serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico.
Stanley Edmund Woodward Jr. is an American attorney with Brand Woodward Law. His clientele has included those subpoenaed or convicted for the January 6 United States Capitol attack and aides to Donald Trump.
