United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

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United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:

These districts were originally part of the Fifth Circuit, but were split off to form the Eleventh effective October 1, 1981. For this reason, Fifth Circuit decisions from before this split are considered binding precedent in the Eleventh Circuit. The court is based at the Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building in Atlanta, Georgia. It is one of thirteen United States courts of appeals.

Current composition of the court
Pending nominations
List of former judges
Chief judges
Succession of seats
Courthouse
Early citation of Wikipedia
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Current composition of the court

As of 2006, the judges on the court are:

Pending nominations

There are currently no Circuit vacancies.

List of former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

Courthouse

Tuttle Courthouse

The court is based in the Elbert P. Tuttle U.S. Court of Appeals Building at 56 Forsyth Street, NW in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed and constructed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style in 1908-1911 by architect James Knox Taylor, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.^[1] The four story granite building has a total area of 158,000 ft² (14,700 m²).

Early citation of Wikipedia

In a 2004 ruling concerning magnetometer searches of antiwar protesters, the Court cited a Wikipedia entry about Homeland Security Advisory System and its five defined threat levels.^[2]^[3] In Bourgeois v. Peters, 387 F.3d 1303 (11th Cir. Oct. 2004), the court held that "the mass, suspicionless, warrantless magnetometer searches violate their Fourth Amendment right to be free of 'unreasonable searches and seizures'" were violative of the 4th Amendment.

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References

- primary but incomplete source for the duty stations
- secondary source for the duty stations
- data is current to 2002
- source for the state, lifetime, term of active judgeship, term of chief judgeship, term of senior judgeship, appointer, termination reason, and seat information