The Afghanistan flag has three vertical bands of black (hoist), red, and green, with a gold emblem centered on the red band; the emblem features a temple-like structure encircled by a wreath on the left and right and by a bold Islamic inscription above. Source: CIA World Factbook, 2007.
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (in case citations, 1st Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: The court is based at the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts. Most sittings are held in Boston, where the court usually sits for one week most months of the year; in one of July or August, it takes a summer break and does not sit.
The concept of a judicial circuit still lives on today. Each of the twelve Courts of Appeal covers its own individual circuit. For example, the United States Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit handles cases from the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia.The judges of the Eleventh Circuit hear most cases in the court's principal office in Atlanta, Georgia.n order to decide the merits of an appeal, circuit court judges rely on documents called briefs. Each party to an appeal submits a brief to the court which outlines the legal arguments at issue. The circuit court judges review the briefs.