United States District Court for the District of Cape Fear

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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 District Court for the District of Cape Fear was created by the Judiciary Act of 1801, which reorganized the federal courts into six circuits and assigned the District of North Carolina to the Fifth Circuit. Furthermore, the act divided North Carolina into three judicial districts, the Albemarle, the Cape Fear, and the Pamptico, with one judgeship authorized to serve all three districts. In 1872, Congress reorganized the districts of North Carolina, replacing these three districts with an Eastern and a Western district.[1]

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