Courts of Virginia include:
;State courts of Virginia
* Supreme Court of Virginia
**Court of Appeals of Virginia
The Court of Appeals of Virginia, established January 1, 1985, is an intermediate appellate court of 17 judges that hears appeals from decisions of Virginia's circuit courts and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission. The Court sits in p ...
***Virginia Circuit Court
The Virginia Circuit Courts are the state trial courts of general jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Circuit Courts have jurisdiction to hear civil and criminal cases. For civil cases, the courts have authority to try cases with a ...
(120 courts divided among 31 judicial circuits)
****Virginia General District Court The Virginia General District Court (GDC) is the lowest level of the Virginia court system, and is the court that most Virginians have contact with. The jurisdiction of the GDC is generally limited to traffic cases and other misdemeanors, civil cas ...
(courts in 32 districts)
****Virginia Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
A Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court, in Virginia, handles all cases involving juvenile crime, child abuse or child neglect, disputes involving custody and visitation, and other family-related matters, as well as cases in which a chil ...
(courts in 32 districts)
Federal courts located in Virginia
*United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:
* District of Maryland ...
(headquartered in Richmond, having jurisdiction over the United States District Courts of Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia)
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* United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
Former federal courts of Virginia
*United States District Court for the District of Virginia
The 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 ...
(extinct, subdivided)
*United States District Court for the District of Potomac
The United States District Court for the District of Potomac was a short-lived United States federal court. Named for the Potomac River, it had jurisdiction over the District of Columbia and pieces of Maryland and Virginia, making it the first ...
(1801-1802; also contained the District of Columbia and pieces of Maryland; extinct, reorganized)Federal Judicial History: Federal Courts of the District of Columbia
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See also
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Judiciary of Virginia
References
External links
National Center for State Courts - directory of state court websites
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Courts in the United States