Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal

Baton Rouge (1st)

Shreveport (2nd)

Lake Charles (3rd)

New Orleans (4th)

Gretna (5th)

Court locations

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The Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal are the intermediate appellate courts for the state of Louisiana.

There are five circuits, each covering a different group of parishes.^[1] Each circuit is subdivided into three districts.^[2]

As with the Louisiana Supreme Court, the regular judicial terms on the courts of appeal are ten years.

The courts of appeal are housed in the following cities in Louisiana:

First Circuit – Baton Rouge. See Luther F. Cole, Douglas Gonzales, John Michael Guidry, Jefferson D. Hughes, III, Samuel A. LeBlanc, I, Morris Lottinger, Jr., Morris Lottinger, Sr., Albert Tate, Jr., and J. Louis Watkins, Jr.

Second Circuit – Shreveport. See H. Welborn Ayres, Walter O. Bigby, James E. Bolin, Henry Newton Brown, Jr., Harmon Caldwell Drew, Harmon Drew, Jr., A. B. George, Fred W. Jones, Jr., Pike Hall, Jr., George W. Hardy, Jr., Robert F. Kennon, Cecil C. Lowe, Charles A. Marvin, J. Frank McInnis, Charles B. Peatross, O. E. Price, Robert Rogers, Jr., Carl E. Stewart, and Jeffrey P. Victory.

Third Circuit – Lake Charles. See William A. Culpepper, Alfred Briggs Irion, Jeannette Knoll, Elizabeth Pickett, and Albert Tate, Jr.

Fourth Circuit – New Orleans. See Philip Ciaccio and Albert Estopinal, Jr.

Fifth Circuit – Gretna. See Charles Grisbaum, Jr., and Greg G. Guidry.

Jurisdiction

The Circuit Courts of Appeal have appellate jurisdiction over all civil matters, all matters appealed from family and juvenile courts, and most criminal cases that are tryable by a jury. A court of appeal also has supervisory jurisdiction to review interlocutory orders and decrees in cases which are heard in the trial courts within their geographical circuits. One unique feature of the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana is that they are able to review questions of fact, as well as questions of law, in civil cases. In appeals of criminal cases, however, the appellate jurisdiction of the courts of appeal extends only to questions of law.^[2]

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State Intermediate Appellate Courts

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Delaware, District of Columbia, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming do not have intermediate appellate courts.

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