Editing United States district court (section)

==Largest and busiest district courts==
[[File:Los Angeles Federal Courthouse 127 S Broadway dllu.jpg|thumb|The [[United States Courthouse (First Street, Los Angeles)|First Street Courthouse]] in downtown [[Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California]], home to most of the district judges of the Western Division of the [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|Central District of California]].]]
The [[United States District Court for the Central District of California|Central District of California]] is the largest federal district by population;<ref>[https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/our-district Our District - USAO-CDCA]</ref> it includes all five counties that make up [[Greater Los Angeles]]. By contrast, [[New York City]] and the surrounding [[New York metropolitan area|metropolitan area]] are divided between the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] (which includes [[Manhattan]], [[The Bronx]] and [[Westchester County, New York|Westchester County]]) and the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York|Eastern District of New York]] (which includes [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], [[Staten Island]], [[Nassau County, New York|Nassau County]] and [[Suffolk County, New York|Suffolk County]]). New York suburbs in [[Connecticut]] and [[New Jersey]] are covered by the [[United States District Court for the District of Connecticut|District of Connecticut]] and [[United States District Court for the District of New Jersey|District of New Jersey]], respectively.

The Southern District of New York and the Central District of California are the largest federal districts by number of judges, with 28 judges each.<ref>{{usc|28|133}}</ref>

In 2007, the busiest district courts in terms of criminal federal felony filings were the [[United States District Court for the District of New Mexico|District of New Mexico]], [[United States District Court for the Western District of Texas|Western District of Texas]], [[United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas|Southern District of Texas]], and the [[United States District Court for the District of Arizona|District of Arizona]]. These four districts all share the [[Mexico – United States border|border with Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web|date=May 7, 2007|title=Border Crackdown Jams US Federal Courts|url=http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/mediasources/20070508a?opendocument|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118215752/http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/mediasources/20070508a?opendocument|archive-date=January 18, 2009}}</ref> A crackdown on illegal immigration resulted in 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]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Goldman|first=Russell|date=July 23, 2008|title=What's Clogging the Courts? Ask America's Busiest Judge|publisher=ABC News|url=https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5429227|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001031249/https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=5429227|archive-date=October 1, 2018}}</ref> The busiest patent litigation court is the [[United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas]], with the most patent lawsuits filed there nearly every year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lexmachina.com/2016-third-quarter-litigation-trends/|title=Third Quarter Trends|last=Byrd|first=Owen|date=October 11, 2016|publisher=Lex Machina|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024145332/https://lexmachina.com/2016-third-quarter-litigation-trends/|archive-date=October 24, 2019|url-status=live|access-date=April 28, 2020}}</ref>