How to Use district court in a Sentence

district court

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  • Mitchell was being held on a zero bond and was set to appear Monday in district court.
    — Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Biden administration tried to toss the rule out, but a district court judge in Texas wouldn’t allow that.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • Still, rulings by district court judges are not definitive precedents, leaving much to litigate.
    — Alan Feuer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2022
  • At a hearing Thursday, the plaintiffs will ask the panel to send the case back to the district court for a reconsideration of the case’s merits.
    — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Circuit and district court proceedings will be conducted remotely due to ongoing repairs to the center.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The case was previously dismissed by a district court judge, who found that none of the states had standing; the plaintiffs immediately appealed that decision.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Lawyers for the company filed documents Tuesday in district court and the appeals court suggesting that the case was moot and that the preliminary injunction should be scrapped.
    — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 6 Oct. 2022
  • The appellate court’s decision upheld in part an injunction against the enforcement of the city’s anti-camping ordinances that had been issued by a lower district court.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Reznicek appealed her sentencing in the pipeline case, citing the district court's application of the terrorism sentencing enhancement.
    — Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 27 Sep. 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
  • 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
  • Last week, a district court judge ordered the law to go into effect on July 29 at 8 a.m. local time.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 28 July 2024
  • The following day, a district court judge lifted the injunction.
    — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 26 July 2024

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