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United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Current United States federal appellate court

Field	Value
court_type	circuit
court_name	United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
abbreviation	1st Cir.
seal	Seal of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.svg
seal_size	150
map_image_name	File:1st Circuit map.svg
courthouse	John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse
location	Boston, Massachusetts
appeals_from	District of Maine
appeals_from1	District of Massachusetts
appeals_from2	District of New Hampshire
appeals_from3	District of Puerto Rico
appeals_from4	District of Rhode Island
established	June 16, 1891
circuit_justice	Ketanji Brown Jackson
chief	David J. Barron
judges_assigned	6
official_site

The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (in case citations, 1st Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:

District of Maine
District of Massachusetts
District of New Hampshire
District of Puerto Rico
District of Rhode Island

The court is based at the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts. Most sittings are held in Boston, where the court usually sits for one week most months of the year; in one of July or August, it takes a summer break and does not sit. The First Circuit also sits for one week each March and November at the Jose V. Toledo Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, and occasionally sits at other locations within the circuit.

With six active judges and five active senior judges, the First Circuit has the fewest judges of any of the thirteen United States courts of appeals. It covers most of New England, as well as Puerto Rico. Following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2009, Associate Justice David Souter occasionally sat on the First Circuit by designation. Former justice Stephen Breyer began to do so in 2025.

Current composition of the court

List of former judges

Chief judges

Succession of seats

Notable decisions

West v. Randall (1820), one of the first decisions setting precedent for class action suits

References

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References

"Court Calendar". United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Raymond, Nate. (2024-04-06). "Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Breyer to hear cases on appeals court". Reuters.

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