United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (in case citations, E.D.N.C.) is the United States district court that serves the eastern 44 counties in North Carolina. Appeals from the Eastern District of North Carolina are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

Jurisdiction and offices

The District has three staffed offices and holds court in six cities: Elizabeth City, Fayetteville, Greenville, New Bern, Raleigh, and Wilmington. Its main office is in Raleigh. It is broken down into four divisions. The eastern division is headquartered in Greenville and handles cases from Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Edgecombe, Greene, Halifax, Hyde, Jones, Lenoir, Martin, Pamlico, Nash and Pitt counties.

The southern division is based in Wilmington and serves the counties of: Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Onslow, Pender, Robeson, and Sampson. Its cases are heard in Wilmington.

The northern and western divisions are based in Raleigh. The western covers: Cumberland, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson counties. Its cases are heard in Fayetteville, Greenville, and New Bern. The northern division presides over cases from: Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pasquotank, Perquimans, Tyrrell and Washington counties. Its cases are heard in Elizabeth City.

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History

The United States District Court for the District of North Carolina was established on June 4, 1790, by Template:USStat.<ref name=S389>Asbury Dickens, A Synoptical Index to the Laws and Treaties of the United States of America (1852), p. 389.</ref><ref name=fjcnc>U.S. District Courts of North Carolina, Legislative history, Federal Judicial Center.</ref> On June 9, 1794, it was subdivided into three districts by Template:USStat,<ref name=fjcnc/> but on March 3, 1797, the three districts were abolished and the single District restored by Template:USStat,<ref name=fjcnc/> until April 29, 1802, when the state was again subdivided into three different districts by Template:USStat.<ref name=S389/><ref name=fjcnc/>

In both instances, these districts, unlike those with geographic designations that existed in other states, were titled by the names of the cities in which the courts sat. After the first division, they were styled the District of Edenton, the District of New Bern, and the District of Wilmington; after the second division, they were styled the District of Albemarle, the District of Cape Fear, and the District of Pamptico. However, in both instances, only one judge was authorized to serve all three districts, causing them to effectively operate as a single district.<ref name=fjcnc/> The latter combination was occasionally referred to by the cumbersome title of the United States District Court for the Albemarle, Cape Fear & Pamptico Districts of North Carolina.

On June 4, 1872, North Carolina was re-divided into two Districts, Eastern and Western, by Template:USStat.<ref name=fjcnc/> The presiding judge of the District of North Carolina, George Washington Brooks, was then reassigned to preside over only the Eastern District. The Middle District was created from portions of the Eastern and Western Districts on March 2, 1927, by Template:USStat.<ref name=fjcnc/>

On July 6, 2021, under Public Law 117-26, Template:USStat, portions of Hoke, Moore, Scotland, and Richmond counties within the Fort Bragg Military Reservation and Camp Mackall were transferred into the Eastern District from the Middle District to end the previous situation where Fort Bragg was covered by two different districts. <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Current judges

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Former judges

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Chief judges

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Succession of seats

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U.S. attorneys for the Eastern District

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See also

References

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