The United States District Court for the Canal Zone (in case citations, D.C.Z.) was a United States District Court which existed in the Panama Canal Zone of Panama from 1914 to 1982.
The court sat at the Courthouse at Ancon Hill from 1914 to 1982, ordered as Governor Residence but completed in 1908 as Administration Building. Today only the shell of the building remains, as the roof and upper floors were demolished with all the remaining floors gutted.
Appeals were taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.History of the Federal Judiciary: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
History The District was established in 1914. It was originally under the War Department but in 1933 was transferred to the Department of Justice.Executive Order 6166 June 10, 1933, Section 6.
The court was abolished, effective March 31, 1982, as part of the process of transferring what had been the Canal Zone to Panama.United States Marshal's service history of US Court for the Canal Zone. Cases then pending in the Canal Zone court were transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans.
Judges
Further reading An Experiment in US Territorial Governance: The District of the Canal Zone and its Federal Court (1904–1979)
References
External links Executive Order #7676, The Canal Zone Judiciary by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pictures of the Panama Canal Zone District Courthouse from the United States Marshals Service