The only federal courthouse that serves two different federal districts and circuits.

As a follow up to the post below, you may not have fully appreciated the elegance of the decision by Judge Nowlin to order that the discovery deposition in that case take place on the steps of the federal courthouse in Texarkana.

That particular courthouse has the unique distinction of straddling the Texas-Arkansas border with one of the building's courtrooms located in the Eastern District of Texas and the Fifth Circuit while two others are located in the Western District of Arkansas and the Eighth Circuit.

Eugene Volokh has blogged about the potential constitutional problem if a case happens to be tried in a courtroom on the wrong side of the building.

If more lawyers are going to act like those chronicled in the preceding post, maybe more courthouses should be built like this.