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

In the Briseno opinion, the C.C.A. said that reliance on clinical testing is “exceedingly subjective.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2016

While Moore was waiting for the C.C.A. to review that sentence, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Atkins, and Moore’s lawyer petitioned the state trial court for another hearing.

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)