The United States District Court for the Canal Zone (in case citations, D.C.Z.)The court sat at the Courthouse at Ancon Hill from 1914 to 1982, ordered as Governor Residence but completed in 1908 as Administration Building.[3] The court was abolished, effective March 31, 1982, as part of the process of returning the Canal Zone to Panama.[4] Cases then pending in the Canal Zone court were transferred to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans.This article relating to law in the United States or its constituent jurisdictions is a stub.