<Li> Between 1911 and 1961, the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina was divided into the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western District of South Carolina . </Li> <Li> The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois was eliminated and a new United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois was created in its place on October 2, 1978 . </Li> <P> There are a few additional extinct district courts that fall into neither of the above two patterns . </P> <Ul> <Li> From 1801 to 1802, the District of Columbia and pieces of Maryland and Virginia formed the United States District Court for the District of Potomac, which was the first United States district court to cross state lines . During the same period, the United States District Court for the District of Norfolk was carved out of another piece of Virginia . The United States District Courts for the Districts of Maryland and Virginia remained during this brief period . </Li> <Li> From 1801 to 1802, and again from 1802 to 1872, the state of North Carolina was subdivided into the United States District Courts for the Districts of Albemarle, Cape Fear, and Pamptico . These courts were extinguished when the state was reorganized into the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of North Carolina . </Li> <Li> United States District Court for the District of Orleans . This court was renamed the United States District Court for the District of Louisiana when the Territory of Orleans became the State of Louisiana . </Li> <Li> United States District Court for the Canal Zone . This court was abolished, effective March 31, 1982, as part of the process of returning the Canal Zone to Panama . Cases then pending in the Canal Zone court were transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans . </Li> <Li> United States Court for China . This court functioned as a district court between 1906 and 1943 . It had jurisdiction over American citizens in China . </Li> </Ul>

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