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4 unusual facts about United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit


Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad

In April 2004, DM&E was awarded the power of eminent domain in South Dakota by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Pierre, South Dakota.

In 2003, a ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ordered the STB to re-examine potential environmental issues around Rochester.

Morris Sheppard

Judge Morris Arnold, a Republican, remains on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit under senior status.

Robin Byrd

In 1978, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals struck as unconstitutional the FCC mandatory access regulations under which Byrd and Goldstein had challenged the cable provider's actions, but the U.S. Supreme Court disposed of the case on other grounds.


Albert Alphonso Ridge

On May 23, 1961, President John F. Kennedy nominated Ridge to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated by Archibald K. Gardner.

George Gardner Fagg

George Gardner Fagg (born April 30, 1934) is a senior United States federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

John R. Gibson

On February 2, 1982, Gibson was nominated by Reagan to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit that had been vacated by Judge Floyd Robert Gibson, who had assumed senior status.

Pasco Bowman II

On May 24, 1983, Bowman was nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit by President Ronald Reagan to a seat vacated by Jesse Smith Henley.

Paul Thissen

Thissen clerked for James B. Loken of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and then went to work at the Minneapolis law firm of Briggs & Morgan, where he specialized in general litigation and appellate work and served as chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee.

Pseudofolliculitis barbae

In the United States, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals found that Domino's Pizza's no-beard policy created a disparate impact by excluding a quarter of black males from employment but almost no white males, violating the 1991 Civil Rights Act, Title VII.

United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit across Missouri in St. Louis has jurisdiction over decisions appealed from the Western District of Missouri (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

Walter E. Hussman, Sr.

Gale Arnold is the divorced first wife of United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Judge Richard S. Arnold.


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