Talk:Oregon circuit courts

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States courts and judges, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United States federal courts, courthouses, and United States federal judges on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United States courts and judgesWikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judgesTemplate:WikiProject United States courts and judgesUnited States courts and judges articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Oregon Mid‑importance

	Oregon portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Oregon, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Oregon on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.OregonWikipedia:WikiProject OregonTemplate:WikiProject OregonOregon articles
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
The current collaborations of the month are Women's History Month: Create or improve articles for women listed at Oregon Women of Achievement (modern) or Women of the West, Oregon chapter (historical).

Law

	Law portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.LawWikipedia:WikiProject LawTemplate:WikiProject Lawlaw articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Name[edit]

I'm pretty sure the article title should be lower case: circuit courts. The individual courts (e.g. Multnomah County Circuit Court) are proper nouns, but I don't think the collective term is. Anyone else know this with more certainty? (I don't think the OJD or Blue Book pages are really a reliable source on this this point, self-referential sources are often guilty of "capital inflation.") -Pete (talk) 18:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I think lower case is best. On the OJD site they tend to refer to it as the circuit courts, but when mentioning the tax court even without the Oregon in front they call it the Tax Court. Plus "United States court of appeals" is the correct spelling for the appeal courts, but individual court such as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are capitalized. Aboutmovies (talk) 18:46, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wow- thanks for the quick response and lead-reworking! -Pete (talk) 18:49, 21 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yup, I'd agree that the circuit courts collectively don't merit the use of Capitals of Great Metaphorical Significance. Katr67 (talk) 04:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]