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3 unusual facts about United States District Court for the District of Columbia


Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1968

After a lengthy and provocative trial that led to explosive media headlines, Judge John J. Sirica of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled on August 27, 1970, that illegal political pressure had been applied to secure the bridge's placement over the Three Sisters.

Scientology in the United States

209 (D.D.C. 1979).

United States military chaplains

In August 2002, the D.C. District Court granted class action status to a lawsuit on the part 17 evangelical Protestant chaplains who challenged the Navy's chaplain-selection criteria.


Adolph A. Hoehling, Jr.

On June 6, 1921, Hoehling was nominated by President Warren G. Harding to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Ashley Mulgrave Gould.

Charles F. McLaughlin

He was a member of the Indian Claims Commission from April 5, 1947 until November 14, 1949 when he took the oath of office a day later as a United States district judge for the District of Columbia.

Christopher Reid Cooper

Christopher “Casey” Reid Cooper (born 1966) is a Washington, D.C. attorney in private practice and is a nominee for United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Delissa A. Ridgway

She served as a law clerk for Judge June Lazenby Green of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in 1979.

District of Columbia City Hall

The federal government rented additional space in 1863 during the American Civil War and later purchased the building to house the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.

Lyndon B. Johnson judicial appointment controversies

In addition to Sanders, three Johnson nominees to district judgeships were not voted on by the United States Senate before Johnson's presidency ended: David Bress to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Cecil F. Poole to the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; and William Byrne to the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Norma Holloway Johnson

Judge Johnson was nominated by President Jimmy Carter on February 28, 1980, to a seat vacated by George L. Hart.

Tanya S. Chutkan

Tanya S. Chutkan is a Washington, D.C. attorney in private practice and is a nominee to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Walter Smith Cox

On February 26, 1879, Cox was nominated by President Rutherford B. Hayes to a new seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia created by 20 Stat.


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Christopher Reid Cooper

On August 1, 2013, President Obama nominated Cooper to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to the seat vacated by Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who took senior status on July 15, 2013.

Munaf v. Geren

Brought in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, the petition named as respondents Francis J. Harvey, Secretary of the Army; Major General William H. Brandenburg, then-Deputy Commanding General of Detainee Operations and Commanding General of Task Force 134, MNF-I; and Lieutenant Colonel Timothy Houser of the 105th Military Police Battalion, commanding officer at Camp Bucca.