The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (in

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based in

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. Appeals from the Eastern District of Louisiana are taken to the

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(except for

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claims and claims against the U.S. government under the

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, which are appealed to the

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). , the Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana is Duane A. Evans.

Jurisdiction

This district comprises the following parishes:

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Lafourche Lafourche Parish (french: Paroisse de la Fourche) is a parish located in the south of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish seat is Thibodaux. The parish was formed in 1807. It was originally the northern part of Lafourche Interior Parish, whi ...

, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tammany,

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, and

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History

On March 26, 1804, Congress organized the

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and created the

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—the only time Congress provided a territory with a district court equal in its authority and jurisdiction to those of the states.U.S. District Courts of Louisiana, Legislative history
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was established on April 8, 1812, by ,Asbury Dickens, ''A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America'' (1852), p. 392. several weeks before Louisiana was formally admitted as a state of the union. The District was thereafter subdivided and reformed several times. It was first subdivided into Eastern and

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Districts on March 3, 1823, by . On February 13, 1845, Louisiana was reorganized into a single District with one judgeship, by , but was again divided into Eastern and the Western Districts on March 3, 1849, by . Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by . On March 3, 1881, by , Louisiana was for a third time divided into Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each. The Middle District was formed from portions of those two Districts on December 18, 1971, by . After the

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was abolished on March 31, 1982, all pending litigation was transferred to the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Current judges

Vacancies and pending nominations

Former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

References

External links

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