C.C.A.

American  

abbreviation

1. Chief Clerk of the Admiralty.

2. Circuit Court of Appeals.

3. County Court of Appeals.

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Example Sentences

This was not the first time that court, sometimes called the C.C.A., had seemed to defy the Supreme Court, said Jordan M. Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

The C.C.A. rejected that recommendation, because that court “erred by disregarding our case law” in defining intellectual disability.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

It wasn’t clear to the C.C.A. that the lawyer was asleep during the important parts of the trial, so the court upheld Burdine’s death sentence.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

The Marion County Jail, our guide explained, is at capacity and recently sent some inmates to a nearby site operated by C.C.A., the private incarceration company.

From New York Times • Aug. 29, 2015

On the two ends and on the front were the letters, "C.C.A."

From Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose by Dickey, J. M. (John Marcus)