The Federal Court system has three judiciary levels which are; U.S. District Courts, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. District Courts are the “trial courts” of the federal court system and there are 94 federal district courts and one in each state. For example, drug prosecutions have had considerable growth near the U.S.- Mexico boarder. So that kind of case would be a federal. There are two types of cases in a U.S. District Court, criminal and civil. Criminal cases are cases in which you break a federal law and are heard in a federal district court. With a civil case, an example would be, if you were trying to sue an agency or someone of the government for violating your rights. The second level is U.S. Court of
