The
United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (in
case citationCase citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...
s,
D.N.H.) is the
Federal district courtThe 94 United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
whose jurisdiction comprises the state of
New HampshireNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of...
. The Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse for the New Hampshire district is located in
ConcordThe city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2000 census, its population was 40,765. Its estimated population in 2007 was 42,392.Concord includes the villages of Penacook, East Concord and West...
.
Appeals from the District of New Hampshire are taken to the
United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Maine* District of Massachusetts...
(except for
patentA patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention....
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the
Tucker ActThrough the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....
, which are appealed to the
Federal CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a United States court of appeals headquartered in Washington, D.C....
).
The
United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court.
The
United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire (in
case citationCase citation is the system used in many countries to identify the decisions in past court cases, either in special series of books called reporters or law reports, or in a 'neutral' form which will identify a decision wherever it was reported...
s,
D.N.H.) is the
Federal district courtThe 94 United States district courts are the general trial courts of the United States federal court system. Both civil and criminal cases are filed in the district court, which is a court of law, equity, and admiralty. There is a United States bankruptcy court associated with each United States...
whose jurisdiction comprises the state of
New HampshireNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It borders Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of...
. The Warren B. Rudman U.S. Courthouse for the New Hampshire district is located in
ConcordThe city of Concord is the capital of the state of New Hampshire in the United States. It is also the county seat of Merrimack County. As of the 2000 census, its population was 40,765. Its estimated population in 2007 was 42,392.Concord includes the villages of Penacook, East Concord and West...
.
Appeals from the District of New Hampshire are taken to the
United States Court of Appeals for the First CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Maine* District of Massachusetts...
(except for
patentA patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or their assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for a public disclosure of an invention....
claims and claims against the U.S. government under the
Tucker ActThrough the Tucker Act , the United States government has waived its sovereign immunity with respect to certain lawsuits....
, which are appealed to the
Federal CircuitThe United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is a United States court of appeals headquartered in Washington, D.C....
).
The
United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. The United States Attorney from 2001-2009 was Thomas P. Colantuono. John Kacavas has been nominated to replace interim U.S. Attorney Michael J. Gunnison.
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090515-NEWS-90515039 The U.S. Attorneys Office is NOT part of the U.S. District Court. The U.S. Attorneys Office is part of the Dept. of Justice.
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| Paul J. Barbadoro Paul J. Barbadoro is a United States District Judge for the District of New Hampshire.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Barbadoro graduated from Gettysburg College in 1977 and earned a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1980. He was a New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General from 1980 to...
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George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President of the United States . He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence....
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| Steven J. McAuliffe Steven James McAuliffe is an American attorney and judge, currently Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the husband of Christa McAuliffe, one of the victims of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.Steven McAuliffe graduated from Virginia...
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George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President of the United States . He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence....
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| Joseph Normand Laplante Joseph Normand Laplante is a United States federal judge.Laplante was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He received an A.B. from Georgetown University in 1987. He received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School in 1990. He was in private practice in New Hampshire from 1990 to 1993...
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George W. Bush George Walker Bush was the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009 and the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000....
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| Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. Joseph A. Diclerico Jr. is a United States federal judge.Diclerico was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. from Williams College in 1963. He received an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1966. He was a law clerk, Hon. Aloysius J. Connor, U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire from...
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George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President of the United States . He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence....
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| Edgar Aldrich Edgar Aldrich was a United States federal judge.Aldrich was born in Pittsburg, New Hampshire. He read law in 1866 and received an LL.B. from University of Michigan in 1868. He was in private practice of law in Colebrook, New Hampshire from 1868 to 1881, also serving as a county solicitor for Coos...
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Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was the 23rd President of the United States, serving one term from 1889 to 1893. Harrison was born in North Bend, Ohio, and moved to Indianapolis, Indiana at the age of 21, where he became a prominent state politician...
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| Hugh H. Bownes Hugh Henry Bownes was a long-serving federal judge in the United States. A native of New York City, Bownes graduated from Columbia College in 1941, and after serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948.Bownes then moved to New...
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Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson , served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969 after his service as the Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963...
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Daniel ClarkDaniel Clark was an American politician who served in the New Hampshire legislature and the United States Senate....
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Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson , the 17th President of the United States , was the first U.S. President to be impeached, as well as the first U.S. president to succeed to the presidency upon the assassination of his predecessor.At the time of the secession of the Southern states, Johnson was a U.S. Senator from...
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Aloysius Joseph ConnorAloysius Joseph Connor was a United States federal judge.Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Connor received an LL.B. from Catholic University of America School of Law in 1918...
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Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin Delano Roosevelt , the only U.S. President elected to more than two terms, was a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...
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Shane DevineShane Devine was a United States federal judge.Devine was born in Manchester, New Hampshire. He received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1949. He received a J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1952. He was in the United States Army from 1944 to 1945...
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Jimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
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Matthew HarveyMatthew Harvey was a lawyer, jurist, and politician from Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Born in Sutton, New Hampshire, he represented the state in the United States House of Representatives and served one abbreviated term as Governor of New Hampshire.Harvey resigned as governor on February 28, 1831 to...
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Andrew JacksonAndrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . He was military governor of Florida , commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans , and eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy...
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Martin F. LoughlinMartin Francis Loughlin was a judge in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire from 1979 to 1995....
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Jimmy CarterJames Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
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George Franklin MorrisGeorge Franklin Morris is a former United States federal judge.Morris was born in Vershire, Vermont. He read law in 1891. He was in private practice in Lisbon, New Hampshire from 1891 to 1906. He was a County solicitor, Grafton County, New Hampshire from 1897 to 1901. He was a New Hampshire state...
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Warren G. HardingWarren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death from a heart attack or stroke in 1923. A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate and later as Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S...
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John PickeringJohn Pickering served as Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire...
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George WashingtonGeorge Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States of America...
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John Samuel SherburneJohn Samuel Sherburne was a lawyer, jurist, and politician from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1776 and from the law department of Harvard University...
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Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States , the principal author of the Declaration of Independence , and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in the United States...
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Norman H. StahlNorman H. Stahl is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. A graduate of Tufts College and Harvard Law School, Stahl was in private practice in New Hampshire for 34 years before President George H. W. Bush nominated him to the United States District Court for the...
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George H. W. BushGeorge Herbert Walker Bush was the 41st President of the United States . He was also Ronald Reagan's Vice President , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence....
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George WashingtonGeorge Washington was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War and served as the first President of the United States of America...
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