The International Peace Garden straddles the international Boundary between North Dakota and the Canadian province of Manitoba.
In 1891, Congress created a separate tier of appellate circuit courts which eliminated the necessity of Supreme Court justices traveling to hear cases in different circuits, which was called circuit riding. Since 1891, the structure of the federal courts has remained relatively unchanged.rticle III did not cover how the court system would be developed, so the First Congress created the Judiciary Act of 1789 to establish the federal judiciary. 1  The Judiciary Act 1789 established the federal court system separate from individual state courts.
In an effort to relieve the caseload burden in the Supreme Court and to handle a dramatic increase in federal filings, Congress, in the Judiciary Act of 1891, established nine courts of appeals, one for each judicial circuit.n 1982, Congress combined the jurisdictions of the U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals and the U.S. Court of Claims into one court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. In recent years Congress has established commissions to examine possible changes in the structure of the courts of appeals.