U.S. District Court Judges Merge File

This merge file can be used to combine detailed biographical data on U.S. District Court Judges from the Federal Judicial Center (http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/export.html) with data on cases form the U.S. Court of Appeals Database Project (http://www.wmich.edu/nsf-coa/). The file includes the unique identifiers used by each group to make it easy for researchers to combine the two data sources together. Note that this is a merge file for U.S. District Court Judges only.

本合并文件可用于将源自联邦司法中心（Federal Judicial Center，http://www.fjc.gov/history/home.nsf/page/export.html）的美国地区法院法官（U.S. District Court Judges）详细传记数据，与美国上诉法院数据库项目（U.S. Court of Appeals Database Project，http://www.wmich.edu/nsf-coa/）提供的案件数据进行整合。该文件收录了两个数据源各自使用的唯一标识符，便于研究人员便捷地将二者合并关联。请注意，本合并文件仅适用于美国地区法院法官数据集的合并操作。