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Wikipedia June 28, 2026 at 03:59 AM

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and suits for injury on federal property or by a federal employee.
Correction

This example is wrong: injury claims caused by federal employees are generally Federal Tort Claims Act cases, not Court of Federal Claims cases.

Full reasoning

The sentence incorrectly lists injury claims on federal property or caused by a federal employee as part of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims' jurisdiction.

Official Court of Federal Claims materials describe that court's jurisdiction as primarily money claims founded on the Constitution, statutes, regulations, or contracts with the United States, and they list examples such as contract claims, bid protests, tax claims, takings claims, vaccine injury claims, and patent/copyright claims. They do not include ordinary tort/personal-injury claims caused by federal employees.

By contrast, the federal judiciary's own FTCA guidance states that the Federal Tort Claims Act covers claims for personal injury, property damage, or death arising from the alleged negligence of federal employees acting within the scope of their duties. Those are FTCA claims, not ordinary Court of Federal Claims cases.

So the article's example is incorrect: suits for injuries caused by federal employees are generally handled under the FTCA rather than as Court of Federal Claims jurisdiction.

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  • Frequently Asked Questions | Court of Federal Claims | United States

    The court is authorized to hear primarily money claims founded upon the Constitution, federal statutes, executive regulations, and contracts ... including contract claims, bid protests, military pay claims, civilian pay claims, tax claims, Indian claims, takings claims, Congressional reference cases, vaccine injury claims, and patent and copyright claims.

  • Federal Tort Claims Against Federal Judiciary Personnel

    The Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) sets forth procedures for presenting and resolving administrative monetary claims for personal injury, property damage, or death arising from the alleged negligence of officers and employees of the federal judiciary acting in the scope of their official duties.

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In the history of the United States, twelve judges have been impeached by the House, and seven have been removed following conviction in the Senate.
Correction

The counts are too low. Federal judiciary and Senate records show more impeachments and more removals than this sentence states.

Full reasoning

This sentence understates both totals.

The Federal Judicial Center's list of impeachments includes 15 members of the federal judiciary who were impeached by the House: John Pickering, Samuel Chase, James H. Peck, West H. Humphreys, Mark W. Delahay, Charles Swayne, Robert W. Archbald, George W. English, Harold Louderback, Halsted L. Ritter, Harry E. Claiborne, Alcee L. Hastings, Walter L. Nixon, Samuel B. Kent, and G. Thomas Porteous, Jr.

Of those, 8 were convicted by the Senate and removed from office: Pickering, Humphreys, Archbald, Ritter, Claiborne, Hastings, Nixon, and Porteous.

Even if one excluded Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase from the count and looked only at lower-court judges, the number impeached would still be 14, not 12. So the statement "twelve ... and seven" is incorrect under any ordinary reading.

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Several district courts require attorneys seeking admission to their bars to take an additional bar examination on federal law, including the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Florida, and the District of Puerto Rico.
Correction

This list is outdated or overbroad. Puerto Rico still uses a federal bar exam, but the Southern District of Ohio and Northern District of Florida now require a seminar/tutorial instead of an additional bar exam.

Full reasoning

The sentence is inaccurate because it treats all three listed courts as examples of districts that require an additional bar examination on federal law.

Current official court admission pages show different requirements:

  • Southern District of Ohio: applicants must be members in good standing of the Ohio bar and attend the Federal Practice Seminar before applying. The page does not describe a separate bar exam.
  • Northern District of Florida: applicants must complete an online Attorney Admission Tutorial and have their Florida Bar status verified. Again, the page does not describe a separate bar exam.
  • District of Puerto Rico: this court does still require an examination approved by its District Examination Committee and explains the subjects tested.

So the article's sentence is wrong as written because two of its three examples no longer fit the description of courts requiring an additional bar examination.

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75 percent of the criminal cases filed in the 94 district courts in 2007 being filed in these four districts and the other district that borders Mexico, the Southern District of California.
Correction

This misstates the 2007 judiciary statistics. The official report said 71% of immigration cases—not 75% of all criminal cases—were filed in the five southwestern border districts.

Full reasoning

This sentence gets both the category and the percentage wrong.

In the federal judiciary's 2007 Judicial Business report, nationwide district-court criminal filings were 68,413 total cases. In that same report, immigration filings were a much smaller subset: 16,722 cases. The report then states that 71 percent of all immigration cases were filed in the five southwestern border districts (Arizona, New Mexico, Southern District of California, Southern District of Texas, and Western District of Texas).

So the article incorrectly transforms that into a claim that 75 percent of all criminal cases nationwide were filed in those districts. The official number was 71 percent, and it applied to immigration cases, not all criminal cases.

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  • Judicial Business 2007 | U.S. Courts

    Search snippet for the official 2007 report: 'Immigration filings grew 2 percent to 16,722 cases and 17,948 defendants ... Seventy-one percent of all immigration cases were filed in five southwestern border districts...' The same report's Table 5 lists 68,413 total criminal cases filed in 2007.

  • Judicial Business of the United States Courts, 2007 (PDF)

    The report states that immigration filings were 16,722 cases in 2007 and that 71 percent of all immigration cases were filed in the five southwestern border districts; Table 5 reports 68,413 total criminal cases filed nationwide in 2007.

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The other 39 districts (around 40% of all district courts) extend admission to certain lawyers admitted in other states, although conditions vary from court to court.
Correction

The count is off by one. There are 94 U.S. district courts, so if 56 are in the first group, the 'other' group can only be 38, not 39.

Full reasoning

This is a straightforward arithmetic error.

The federal judiciary states that there are 94 U.S. district courts in total. The preceding sentence in the article says 56 districts require admission in the state where the district court sits. If 56 courts are already in that first category, then the number of 'other' district courts must be 38, not 39.

Because 56 + 39 = 95, the sentence cannot be correct as written.

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  • FAQs: Court Information

    There are 89 districts in the 50 states ... District courts also exist in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. In total there are 94 U.S. district courts.

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