United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, cited as 8th Cir., is one of the thirteen federal courts of appeals in the United States. It hears appeals from the federal district courts of seven states: the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas, the Northern and Southern Districts of Iowa, the District of Minnesota, the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri, the District of Nebraska, the District of North Dakota and the District of South Dakota. The court sits mainly at the Thomas F. Eagleton United States Courthouse in St. Louis, Missouri, with a secondary base at the Warren E. Burger United States Courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota, and it is composed of eleven active judges. Congress created the Eighth Circuit in 1837, and a 1929 statute divided it, keeping Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri and Arkansas in the Eighth Circuit and forming a new Tenth Circuit for Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Oklahoma.