Show district of columbia courts the supreme court of district of columbia is a court of original jurisdiction with general jurisdiction the same as a federal district court and local jurisdiction the same as state courts the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia is the highest local court the parallelism between the supreme court of the district and the court of appeals of the district on the one hand and the district courts of the united states and the circuit court of appeals on the other in the consideration and disposition of cases involving what among the state st s wn anim ld he regarded as within federal jurisdiction is complete |