United States Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina
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This page is about a former federal court. For a list of active courts, see: United States federal courts.
The United States Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina was established as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, to hear appeals from the District Court for the District of South Carolina. It was dissolved as part of a reformation of the circuit court system by the Judiciary Act of 1801, but was restored with the repeal of that act less than a year later.
In 1823, South Carolina was divided into Eastern and Western judicial districts, but retained a united circuit court, which heard appeals from both districts. From 1856 to 1889, the district court in Greenville was authorized to have the same original jurisdiction as was normally given to circuit courts, but the appeals from that court were still the jurisdiction of the Circuit Court for the District of South Carolina. This court was permanently dissolved, with the rest of the circuit court system, on March 3, 1911.[1]
