Template:U.S. federal jurisdictions/doc

Usage

 * Copy and paste into a legal concept article:
 * This template MUST always be substituted, as above, by prefixing subst: inside the template code, or it will break.
 * This template takes no parameters.

Placement

 * This template should be placed near the bottom of a legal concept article, just before the references section.

Purpose
Major federal law legal concepts or subjects, e.g., comity, will normally be interpreted by caselaw in a manner peculiar to each of the 12 federal circuits. Accordingly, at least for broad legal concepts, there should ultimately be a separate article for each federal circuit's treatment thereof.

This template allows you to place a section with links for each of the U.S.' 12 federal circuits in the overarching article on a broad legal concept, pre-formatted for each. While the links appear as a list of the 12 federal circuits, the code pipes the link for each circuit to the article for that circuit's treatment of the concept or subject, in the form, e.g., Comity (1st circuit), which will appear as simply 1st circuit in the list, and so on for each circuit. Each circuit will be red-linked until such time as an article is created for that circuit's treatment of the legal concept.