Courts of Pennsylvania
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Courts of Pennsylvania include:
State courts of Pennsylvania
Federal courts located in Pennsylvania
Former federal courts of Pennsylvania
State courts of Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court of PennsylvaniaSupreme Court of PennsylvaniaThe Supreme Court of Pennsylvania is the court of last resort for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It meets in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.-History:...
- Superior Court of PennsylvaniaSuperior Court of PennsylvaniaThe Superior Court of Pennsylvania is one of two Pennsylvania intermediate appellate courts, the other being the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Appeal to the Superior Court is generally of right from final decisions of the Court of Common Pleas...
(3 districts) - Commonwealth Court of PennsylvaniaCommonwealth Court of PennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania is one of two Pennsylvania intermediate appellate courts. The Commonwealth Court's headquarters is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Superior Court of Pennsylvania is the other intermediate appellate court in the Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System...
- Pennsylvania Courts of Common PleasPennsylvania Courts of Common PleasThe Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas are the trial courts of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania .The Courts of Common Pleas are the trial courts of general jurisdiction in the state....
(60 judicial districts) - Special Courts of Pennsylvania
- Pennsylvania Courts of Common Pleas
- Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Federal courts located in Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitUnited States Court of Appeals for the Third CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts for the following districts:* District of Delaware* District of New Jersey...
(headquartered in Philadelphia, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the United States Virgin Islands) - United States District Court for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaUnited States District Court for the Eastern District of PennsylvaniaThe United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania is one of the original 13 federal judiciary districts created by the Judiciary Act of 1789...
- United States District Court for the Middle District of PennsylvaniaUnited States District Court for the Middle District of PennsylvaniaThe United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania is district level federal court with jurisdiction over approximately one half of Pennsylvania...
- United States District Court for the Western District of PennsylvaniaUnited States District Court for the Western District of PennsylvaniaThe United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania sits in Pittsburgh, Erie, and Johnstown, Pennsylvania. It is composed of ten judges as authorized by federal law. The Honorable Judge Gary L. Lancaster is currently Chief Judge of the Western Pennsylvania District...
Former federal courts of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the District of PennsylvaniaUnited States District Court for the District of PennsylvaniaThe following are former United States district courts, which ceased to exist because they were subdivided into smaller units. With the exception of California, each of these courts initially covered an entire U.S. state, and was subdivided as the jurisdictions which they covered increased in...
(extinct, subdivided in 1815)