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Fifth Circuit Returns to New Orleans

By immigrationprof

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsItem=105

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has announced its plan to return the court’s operations to its New Orleans headquarters. The court has operated since Hurricane Katrina from the Bob Casey United States Courthouse in Houston, Texas. The return plan contemplates shutting down the Houston operations at close of business on Friday, December 16, 2005 and reopening for business at the John Minor Wisdom Court of Appeals Building in New Orleans on Monday, January 9, 2006. Emergency matters will continue to be accepted for filing during the period of shutdown in accordance with the court’s order posted at www.ca5.uscourts.gov.

KJ