Courts of Appeals
The United States Court of Appeals were established by the Judiciary Act of 1891 as "United States circuit courts of appeals" (the name was changed to its current form in 1948). The act authorized 19 appellate judgeships in 9 circuits. Since then, the number of authorized appellate judgeships has increased to 179.
Read more about this topic: Judicial Appointment History For United States Federal Courts
Famous quotes containing the words courts and/or appeals:
“A day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalms, 84:10.
“The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)