Oregon's circuit courts are
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trial court
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s of the
U.S. state
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of
Oregon
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. These courts hear
civil
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and
criminal
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court cases.
The state has 27 circuit court districts, most of which correspond to the boundaries of
Oregon's 36 counties. The sixth, seventh, tenth, fifteenth, twenty-second and twenty-fourth districts cover two or more counties while the rest cover just one county each.
The courts are operated by the
Oregon Judicial Department (OJD). As of January 2007, the courts had 173 judges. The majority of appeals from the circuit courts go to the
Oregon Court of Appeals
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. Some limited cases go directly to the
Oregon Supreme Court
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[An Introduction to the Courts of Oregon]
, Oregon Judicial Department, Accessed on August 25, 2007.
In 2010, Chief Justice Paul J. De Muniz issued an order creating the statewide Oregon Complex Litigation Court within the circuit courts.
The OJD has no jurisdiction over other local courts in Oregon, which include county courts, justice courts, and municipal courts.
[Municipal Courts]
from the Oregon Blue Book
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In 1998, the state combined its state district courts into the Oregon circuit courts.
[Oregon Blue Book: Oregon Circuit Courts.]
Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved on January 25, 2008.
Circuits
#First Judicial District –
Jackson
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#Second Judicial District –
Lane
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#Third Judicial District –
Marion Marion or MARION may refer to:
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*Marion (band), a British alternative rock group
* ''Marion'' (miniseries), a 1974 miniseries
* ''Marion'' (1920 film), an Italian silent film
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#Fourth Judicial District –
Multnomah.
Multnomah County Court. The chief prosecutor is the
Multnomah County District Attorney.
#Fifth Judicial District –
Clackamas
#Sixth Judicial District –
Umatilla,
Morrow
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*Morrow, Georgia
* Morrow, Louisiana
* Morrow, Ohio
*Morrow County, Ohio
*Morrow County, Oregon
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*Morrow Lake, Ontario
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#Seventh Judicial District –
Sherman
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** William Tecumseh Sherman (1820–1891), American Civil War General
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,
Gilliam,
Wheeler,
Wasco,
Hood River
#Eighth Judicial District –
Baker
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#Ninth Judicial District –
Malheur
#Tenth Judicial District –
Wallowa Wallowa may refer to:
Places
*Wallowa, Oregon
*Wallowa County, Oregon
*Wallowa Lake
*Wallowa Lake State Park
*Wallowa Mountains
*Wallowa River
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,
Union
#Eleventh Judicial District –
Deschutes
#Twelfth Judicial District –
Polk
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#Thirteenth Judicial District –
Klamath
#Fourteenth Judicial District –
Josephine
#Fifteenth Judicial District –
Coos Coos may refer to:
People
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*Coos people, an Indigenous people of the Northwest Plateau in Oregon
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,
Curry
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#Sixteenth Judicial District –
Douglas
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#Seventeenth Judicial District –
Lincoln
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* Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th president of the United States
* Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England
* Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Nebraska, U.S.
* Lincoln (na ...
#Eighteenth Judicial District –
Clatsop
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#Nineteenth Judicial District –
Columbia
#Twentieth Judicial District –
Washington
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* Washington (state), a state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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#Twenty-first Judicial District –
Benton
#Twenty-second Judicial District –
Crook
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,
Jefferson
#Twenty-third Judicial District –
Linn Linn may refer to:
People
* Linn (surname)
* Linn (given name)
* Carl Linnaeus, abbreviated as Linn.
* Linn da Quebrada, stage name of Brazilian singer, actress, screenwriter and television personality Lina Pereira dos Santos (born 1990)
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#Twenty-fourth Judicial District –
Harney,
Grant
#Twenty-fifth Judicial District –
Yamhill
#Twenty-sixth Judicial District –
Lake
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#Twenty-seventh Judicial District –
Tillamook
See also
*
Government of Oregon
The government of the U.S. state of Oregon, as prescribed by the Oregon Constitution, is composed of three government branches: the Executive (government), executive, the Legislature, legislative, and the Judiciary, judicial. These branches opera ...
*
Oregon Tax Court
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References
External links
Circuit courts pagehosted by the Oregon Judicial Department
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Oregon
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Circuit courts
Circuit courts are court systems in several common law jurisdictions. It may refer to:
* Courts that literally sit 'on circuit', i.e., judges move around a region or country to different towns or cities where they will hear cases;
* Courts that s ...
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