FORTY YEARS AGO last Sunday, five men broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex in Washington DC in a botched operation that would spark a chain of events that two years later would see Richard Nixon resign as the 37th president of the United States.
Federal courts hear cases involving violations of federal statues, crimes committed on federal property or disputes between residents of different states. State courts hear cases involving violations of state laws or disputes between two or more residents of that state. The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota is a Federal Court. This Court is completely separate from State Courts.
The main purpose of the federal district courts is to hear federal trials. The purpose of the federal courts of appeal is to hear appeals from those trials. The United State â¦ s district courts are the federal trial courts. Their 654 judges handle more than 300,000 cases a year, about 80 percent of the federal caseload. The district courts were created by Congress in the Judiciary Act of 1789.