United States Courts. Supreme Court. It shall be requisite to the admission of attorneys or counselors to practice in this court that they shall have been such for three years past in the supreme courts of the states to which they respectively belong, and that their private and professional character shall appear to be fair. The prescribed oath shall be taken. Sup. Ct. Rule (3 Sup. Ct. Rep. v.). Circuit Courts of Appeals. Although the rule of the circuit courts of appeals governing the admission of attorneys, as adopted primarily, provides that, to become eligible, the applicant shall have been admitted to the supreme court or any circuit court of the United States, and shall have taken the prescribed oath, it has since been changed to some extent in several of the circuits. In the Third circuit, the clause requiring avowal of the oath has been annulled, as respects attorneys of the circuit court of the Third circuit; in the Sixth circuit, a provision is made for a certificate of admission upon demand and payment of a fee of $2.50; in the Eighth circuit, former admission to the highest court of any state within that circuit is sufficient qualification; and in the Ninth circuit, former admission to a circuit court is limited to admission to a circuit court of the Ninth circuit, and is enlarged to the extent that former admission in the highest court of any state or territory shall constitute qualifica tion. C. C. A. Rule (12 Sup. Ct. Rep. vi. vii.). Circuit and District Courts. The rules for admission to these courts vary. Generally attorneys who have been admitted to practice in other United States courts or the highest courts of a state or territory are eligible. FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS. U. S. Supreme Court. A complete set of the United States Supreme Court Reports (1790 to 1903) consists of 190 volumes. Everything subsequent to vol. 105 is covered by the Supreme Court Reporter (of the National Reporter System) in a set of 23 volumes. The Supreme Court Reporter makes currently one volume a year, covering all the current decisions filed by the court, and is supplied to subscribers in advance sheets as published; these being displaced at the end of the year by a bound volume which contains everything in the official edition, and is equipped with a table giving the official page references. There are other editions of the United States Reports,— one giving vols. I to 190 in 47 books, and another giving vols. I to 190 in about 150 books. U. S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. These courts were established in 1891, and all opinions from the beginning have been reported currently in the Federal Reporter. (See below.) The back volumes of this set, therefore, incorporate all the reported decisions from these nine courts, and the current numbers give the first report of the current decisions. The decisions are reported separately in the C. C. A. Reports, of which 60 volumes are now completed. |