Generally, a final ruling by a district court can be appealed to the United States court of appeals in the federal judicial circuit in which the district court is located.

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"Americans for Prosperity believes that government should be reined in when it overreaches its legal authority, and here, the appeals court played that crucial role, reining in a district court decision that was judicial activism at its core, " said spokesman Levi Russell.

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The court refused a call for a judicial review of a ban by a school district on the placing of the ten commandments on a fence at school baseball field in Downey, California.

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Judicial Watch, a conservative group, is suing the administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to push for the release of all records from Obama's inauguration to Aug. 10, 2009, when the organization originally sought the information from the U.S. Secret Service.

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On slide three, you can see that the average wait time for our judicial nominees to get a vote on the floor of the Senate, both for the circuit court and the district court is three to four times as long as it was under our predecessor.

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