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The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in case citations, E.D. Tex.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit ). The District was established on February 21, 1857, with the division of the ...
Liberty County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas.As of the 2020 census, its population was 91,628. The county seat is Liberty. It was founded in 1831, as a municipality in Mexico as Villa de la Santísima Trinidad de la Libertad by commissioner José Francisco Madero and organized as a county of the Republic of Texas in 1836.
December 12, 2002. The Liberty County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located in Liberty, Texas, and serves as the official courthouse for Liberty County. Built in 1931 on the site of an earlier courthouse and expanded in 1956, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [2]
Chambers County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 46,571. [ 2][ 3] The county seat is Anahuac. [ 4] Chambers County is one of the nine counties that comprise Greater Houston, the Houston – The Woodlands – Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area .
The oldest federal civil building in Texas, the 1861 Customs and Courthouse in Galveston, once housed the Southern District of Texas. Federal Courthouse in Galveston that housed the court & its predecessor, from 1891–1917 [2] Since its foundation, the Southern District of Texas has been served by forty-one District Judges and six Clerks of Court.
Since the county judge is also responsible for presiding over the Commissioners Court (the main executive and legislative body of the county), in 94 counties the Texas Legislature has established county courts at law to relieve the county judge of judicial duties. The first multi-county statutory county court (composed of Fisher, Mitchell, and ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (in case citations, N.D. Tex.) is a United States district court. Its first judge, Andrew Phelps McCormick, was appointed to the court on April 10, 1879. The court convenes in Dallas, Texas with divisions in Fort Worth, Amarillo, Abilene, Lubbock, San Angelo, and Wichita Falls.
Abolished in 1899 and annexed to Webb County. Foley County, formed in 1887 from Presidio County. Annexed in 1897 to Brewster County. Greer County, formed in 1860. Separated from Texas by U.S. Supreme Court ruling in United States v. the State of Texas, 162 U.S. 1 (1896) and is now part of southwestern Oklahoma.