The term Judiciary Act may refer to any of several statutes relating to the organization of national court systems:
- Australia
- Judiciary Act 1903
- United States
- Judiciary Act of 1789, established the federal judiciary.
- Judiciary Act of 1801, also called the Midnight Judges Act.
- Judiciary Act of 1802, repealed the 1801 Act.
- Judiciary Act of 1866 may refer to two different laws.
- Ch. 210, 14 Stat. 209 (July 23, 1866), more commonly called the Judicial Circuits Act
- Ch. 288, 14 Stat. 306 (July 27, 1866), removed certain cases from state courts to the federal courts.
- Judiciary Act of 1867, 14 Stat. 385 (Feb. 5, 1867), amended sec. 25 of the Act of 1789 regarding Supreme Court review of state court rulings
- Judiciary Act of 1869, also called the Circuit Judges Act of 1869
- Judiciary Act of 1891, also called the Evarts Act or the Circuit Courts of Appeals Act.
- Judiciary Act of 1925, also called the Certiorari Act or the Judges' Bill.
Famous quotes containing the words judiciary and/or act:
“The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federal judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I’ll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“We all have—to put it as nicely as I can—our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terrible power that sometimes destroys us; but they don’t talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before—truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)