United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, cited as 7th Cir., is the federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the federal district courts of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, namely the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of Illinois, the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin. The Seventh Circuit was created by the Seventh Circuit Act of 1807. The court is based at the Dirksen Federal Building in Chicago, has eleven appellate judges and is one of 13 United States courts of appeals. It publishes wiki and RSS feeds of opinions and oral arguments, and is known for law and economics scholars on its bench, including Frank Easterbrook and, until 2017, Richard Posner. Three of its judges, Sherman Minton, John Paul Stevens and Amy Coney Barrett, became Supreme Court justices.