A bill to amend title 28, United States Code, to remove the Canal Zone and the States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia from the fifth judicial circuit, to create an additional judicial circuit to be composed of the Canal Zone and the States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, and for other purposes.

Summary

Divides the current United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit into the following two circuits: (1) the Fifth Circuit, composed of the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, and consisting of 14 judges; and (2) the Eleventh Circuit, composed of the States of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, and the Canal Zone and consisting of 12 judges. (The current Fifth Circuit consists of all six States and has 26 judges.)

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 12 June 1980

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.