The Tax Court decision and a similar earlier finding by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenges a year-old I.R.S. ruling on the subject.

Following this ruling, Alford petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, which upheld the initial ruling, and subsequently to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which ruled that Alford's plea was not voluntary, because it was made under fear of the death penalty.

Dismissed by the district court, the case was heard on appeal and the Ninth Circuit issued its ruling on May 21, 2008.

The government filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit on November 23, but made no attempt to have the trial court's ruling stayed pending the outcome.

Following the implementation of DADT's repeal, a panel of three judges of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the Phillips ruling.

" The term intellectual property can be found used in an October 1845 Massachusetts Circuit Court ruling in the patent case Davoll et al.

On January 19, 2011, the Supreme Court overturned the Ninth Circuit decision, ruling that the background checks did not violate any constitutional privacy right that the employees may have had.

The summary judgment ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but was unanimously reversed by the US Supreme Court in a decision titled MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd.

For example, a district court in the United States First Circuit could consider a ruling made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as persuasive authority.

In United States of America v. Extreme Associates a pornography distributor from North Hollywood, California, was judged to be held accountable to the community standards applying in western Pennsylvania, where the Third Circuit made its ruling, because the materials were available via Internet in that area.

A federal district court's ruling that only González's father, and not his extended relatives, could petition for asylum on the boy's behalf was upheld by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The decision was appealed, and in September 1987 the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the ruling.

The Eighth Circuit found Section 5 of the IRA to be unconstitutional, ruling that it violated the non-delegation doctrine and that the Secretary of Interior did not have the authority to take the land into trust.

Citing the precedent of the 2002 ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Karlton issued an Order stating that, upon proper motion, he would enjoin the school district defendants from continuing their practices of leading children in pledging allegiance to " one Nation under God ".

On November 12, 2010, in a unanimous decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston affirmed a ruling by a New Hampshire lower federal court which found that the pledge's reference to God doesn't violate students ' rights.

Generally, a final ruling by a district court in either a civil or a criminal case can be appealed to the United States court of appeals in the federal judicial circuit in which the district court is located, except that some district court rulings involving patents and certain other specialized matters must be appealed instead to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and in a very few cases the appeal may be taken directly to the United States Supreme Court.

After the trial, Noriega appealed this exclusionary ruling by the judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

The United States district court backed Boosey & Hawkes's case in 1996, but the Second Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the ruling in 1998, stating that Disney's original " license for motion picture rights extends to video format distribution.

The U. S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit subsequently overturned the ruling on June 29, 2005.

The Eighth Circuit, citing Baker v. Nelson, affirmed the constitutionality under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause of Nebraska's constitutional amendment which defines marriage as between a man and a woman, and states that unions of two people in a same-sex relationship as marriage or similar to marriage shall not be valid or recognized in Nebraska, and reversing a ruling by Judge Joseph F. Bataillon of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska that a prohibition on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional.

* On 19 July 2005, in Richmond, Virginia, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals began hearing the government's appeal of the lower court ( the District of South Carolina, at Charleston ) ruling by Henry F. Floyd, District Judge, ( CA-04-2221-26AJ ).

On June 19, 1998 the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the original court's ruling that Thompson was not entitled to be credited with co-authorship of Rent and that she was not entitled to royalties.

On appeal, a stay was granted by the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ; the Court also overturned the District Court's original ruling for Mattel, where MGA Entertainment was ordered to forfeit the entire Bratz brand.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals is reviewing an appeal from the plan.

On Friday he will go to Portland for the swearing in of Dean Bryson as Multnomah County Circuit Judge.

The Circuit Court jurist said the boy will have a hearing in Juvenile Court.

Circuit Judge Paul R. Cash did not set a date for sentencing.

Some jurisdictions have specialized appellate courts, such as the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, which only hears appeals raised in criminal cases, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which has general jurisdiction but derives most of its caseload from patent cases, on the other hand, and appeals from the Court of Federal Claims on the other.

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

* US v. Szucko, Definition of term by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

* US v. Bierd, Definition of term by United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

When a Justice retires, they have the opportunity to assume duties similar to that of senior status assumed by District and Circuit Judges.

After a decision in favor of Borland by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the case went to the United States Supreme Court.

As a result, the Fourth Circuit decision remained standing, but the Supreme Court result, being a tie, did not bind any other court and set no national precedent.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

" In June 1917, Chaplin signed to complete eight films for First National Exhibitors ' Circuit in return for $ 1 million.

Circuit Park Zandvoort is a motorsport race track located in Burgemeester van Alphenstraat 108, 2041 KP in the dunes north of the town of Zandvoort, in the Netherlands, near the North Sea coast line.

However, a new operating company, the Stichting Exploitatie Circuit Park, was formed and started work at the realization of the track's reconstruction plans.

Circuit Park Zandvoort was born and in the summer of 1989 the track was remodeled to an interim Club Circuit of, while the disposed southern part of the track was used to build a Vendorado Bungalow Park and new premises for the local soccer and hockey clubs.

In 1995, CPZ ( Circuit Park Zandvoort ) got the " A Status " of the Dutch government and began building an international Grand Prix Circuit.

A noise restriction order was responsible for this event moving to the Belgian Circuit Zolder for 2007 and 2008.

Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the first race in the 2006 / 07 season of A1 Grand Prix from 29 September-1 October 2006.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.