[You Dirty Rats]

I don't think your analogy is correct. Cases involving regulatory agencies, for example, are handled by the DC Circuit.

[hankbrown]

I don't think your analogy is correct. Cases involving regulatory agencies, for example, are handled by the DC Circuit.

That is because most federal statutes require regulatory agency cases to be heard in DC. No federal statute is available in this case to dictate where case must be brought.