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The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (in case citations, W.D. La.) is a United States federal court with jurisdiction over approximately two thirds of the state of Louisiana, with courts in Alexandria, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Monroe, and Shreveport. These cities comprise the Western District of Louisiana.
United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana [6] Former federal courts of Louisiana. United States District Court for the District of Orleans (territorial court of the Territory of Orleans, extinct, abolished when Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812) United States District Court for the District of Louisiana ...
Jerry Edwards Jr. (born 1979) [1] is an American lawyer from Louisiana who has served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana since 2023. He previously served as the first assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana from 2022 to 2023.
Each district also has a United States Marshal who serves the court system. Three territories of the United States — the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands — have district courts that hear federal cases, including bankruptcy cases. [1] The breakdown of what is in each judicial district is codified in 28 U.S.C. §§ 81–131.
Each circuit court consisted of two Supreme Court justices and the local district judge; the three circuits existed solely for the purpose of assigning the justices to a group of circuit courts. Some districts (generally the ones most difficult for an itinerant justice to reach) did not have a circuit court; in these districts the district ...
The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington represents the United States in civil and criminal litigation in the court. As of June 21, 2023, the acting United States attorney is Tessa M. Gorman. [1] The position of United States marshal for the district is vacant. [2]
Congress again abolished the Western District of Louisiana and reorganized Louisiana as a single judicial district on July 27, 1866, by 14 Stat. 300. [3] On March 3, 1881, by 21 Stat. 507, Louisiana was for a third time divided into Eastern and the Western Districts, with one judgeship authorized for each. [ 3 ]
Lloyd George Teekell, 1951, judge of the 9th Judicial District Court and Louisiana House of Representatives from Rapides Parish; Donald Ellsworth Walter, 1964, U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana; Ralph E. Tyson, United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana chief judge