The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals

The U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals is the federal appellate court which hears appeals for the following districts: the District of Utah, District of Kansas, District of Colorado, District of Wyoming, District of New Mexico, Western District of Oklahoma, Eastern District of Oklahoma and Northern District of Oklahoma.

The court is based in Denver, Colorado and is located at The Byron White U.S. Courthouse, 1823 Stout Street, Denver, CO 80257. The main phone number for the clerk's office is 303-844-3157.

This court has ten active judges and ten senior judges. One of the ten active judges serves as chief judge, and this responsibility is rotated among all active judges. In order to become a chief judge, they must be either 70 years old or have served for seven years. If no active judges meet these criteria, they are waived, however.

The main website for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is located at www.ca10.uscourts.gov/index.php. Important information found on the site includes initial appeal documents, briefing checklists, electronic case filing and recent published opinions. Biographies of all judges are available, as well as a calendar of scheduled arguments. Visitors can learn about rules, access online forms and even obtain instructions for jury members on this site.

Interested parties can also learn about the court's history and how it operates within the U.S. court system. Resources for online electronic case filing and PACER are found at www.ca10.uscourts.gov/clerk/casemanagement.php. In order to use these services, you must first become a registered user of the systems, and it is suggested that new users utilize the online training resources. PACER, or Public Access to Court Electronic Records, is the database which provides access to federal court records online.