New Hampshire Supreme Court

The New Hampshire Supreme Court is the supreme court of the U.S. state of New Hampshire and its sole appellate court, seated in the state capital, Concord. It is composed of a chief justice and four associate justices appointed by the governor and executive council to serve during good behavior until retirement or age seventy, and its senior member may specially assign lower-court judges or retired justices to fill vacancies. The court serves as the administrative authority over the state judicial system and holds both mandatory and discretionary appellate jurisdiction; in 2000 it created a Three Judges Expedited panel to decide cases of lesser precedential value, and in 2004 it began accepting all trial-court appeals for the first time in 25 years. Known as the Superior Court of Judicature from 1776 to 1876, the four-member court was renamed by an act of the New Hampshire General Court and expanded to five justices in 1901; retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter served on it from 1983 to 1990. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/