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

Last June, Judge Elsa Alcala, of the C.C.A., called for her court “to reconsider whether the death penalty remains a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment under the current Texas scheme.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

One of the reasons she gave was that the C.C.A. “misapplies Supreme Court law on intellectual disability.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

TransCor stopped performing extraditions in 2008 because of liability and cost concerns, but still moves prisoners between C.C.A. locations.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 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)