The U.S. district courts are the trial courts of the federal court system. The district courts can hear most federal cases, including civil and criminal cases. There are 94 federal judicial districts in the United States and its territories. Each district includes a U.S. bankruptcy court.
The patriarch and matriarch of one of Silicon Valleyâs most prominent families in real-estate development and philanthropy, John A. â60 and Susan Sobrato, have made a gift of $100 million to Santa Clara University to help create the Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation. The Universityâs largest-ever gift, $100 million from John A. and Susan Sobrato, will fund a 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for transformational STEM education.
Harvard does not depend on tuition to survive. While the university collected $814 million in student fees in 2013, in the same year it received $880 million in gifts, and its endowment grew by $2 billion dollars from returns on investments. So, if all things remained the same, Harvardâs endowment would continue to grow by more than $1 billion per year.