Can I appeal from a federal circuit court of appeals to the united states supreme court?
You can always try. There are only a very small number of circumstances fixed by statute in which a party may have the "automatic" right to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In most circumstances an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States is discretionary. The party losing in the Federal Court of Appeals often will file a "Petition for Certiorari" asking the Supreme Court to hear the case. To a lay person, this is an appeal, but in the Supreme Court of the United States an "appeal" is always "as of right" and cases heard by exercise of the Court's discretion--by granting the Petition for Certiorari--are not technically appeals. The media often doesn’t make this distinction.
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