How to Use district court in a Sentence
district court
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The district court could still strike down Biden’s policy.
— Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022 -
The state Supreme Court returned the waiting-period case to district court.
— David Pitt, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2022 -
Weber and Liston pleaded guilty in district court a year or more ago and are awaiting sentencing.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2022 -
Both the district court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2022 -
The district court judges will volunteer to be a water judge and then be approved by the Judicial Council.
— Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022 -
The case is now continuing in the Tennessee district court where it was originally filed.
— Eli Sanders, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2024 -
Purvis' case originally was filed in district court in October 2023.
— Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2024 -
That arbitrator is former U.S. district court judge Sue Robinson.
— Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 June 2022 -
But a district court judge ruled in 2017 that Ragsdale had not proven that her neighbor’s behavior met the legal definition of stalking.
— Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 June 2022 -
In their 13-page opinion issued Wednesday, all five justices sided with the district court over the constitutionality of the inland port.
— Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022 -
But the district court said no, setting the stage for the Iowa Supreme Court to hear the case.
— David W. Chen, New York Times, 16 June 2023 -
In 2012, the Sacketts appealed to the Supreme Court but the case was sent back to a district court.
— Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022 -
The suit was brought in state district court in Travis County.
— Zach Despart, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Aug. 2022 -
And Google will appeal, too, when the district court case is all said and done.
— Sean Hollister, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024 -
The plaintiffs want the appeals court to reverse the dismissal of the case and send it back to district court.
— Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2024 -
The verdict in favor of Havana Docks is the first from a district court, the data shows.
— Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 6 Jan. 2023 -
Brown could contest the races and let a district court judge decide.
— Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022 -
So the third circuit threw the case back to the district court and that's where a trial is scheduled to begin June 3rd.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024 -
To date, most judges in Jan. 6 cases, at the district court and appeals court level, have upheld the use of the statute.
— Charlie Savage, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023 -
The Supreme Court decision affirmed the three-judge court’s decision of last year and sent the case back to the district court.
— Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 20 June 2023 -
What is unusual about this case is the way that the district court responded to these claims.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023 -
That was enough to convince the Colorado district court judge who initially heard the case.
— Nicholas Riccardi, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024 -
Friday was the deadline set by the three-judge district court for the Legislature to pass a new map.
— Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 22 July 2023 -
After a district court judge refused to dismiss the case last year, the state asked the Utah Supreme Court to intervene.
— Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023 -
Boudreaux is appealing his case to the local district court.
— Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023 -
The district court judge who enjoined the six-month ban allowed the rulemaking process on the new law to move forward.
— Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024 -
The brief asserts that the district court’s decision from 2021 should be upheld.
— Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023 -
At least one district court has upheld the law since the Bruen decision.
— Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023 -
The Supreme Court also considered the case in 2021 but remanded it back to district court.
— Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023 -
The district court that first heard this suit already ruled that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s conduct.
— Rachel Weiner, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
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