How to Use district court in a Sentence

district court

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  • In district court, the judge’s job is to apply the facts to the law.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 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
  • The case has been assigned to a Travis County district court.
    — Ryan Autullo, USA TODAY, 6 May 2022
  • Brown could contest the races and let a district court judge decide.
    — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • The case will now be sent back to district court for trial, though dates haven't been set yet, Langhofer said.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Both the district court and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 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 | [email protected], 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 | [email protected], 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 district court could still strike down Biden’s policy.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
  • 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
  • Aaron and Tiffany James’ lawsuit remains in district court.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
  • Included on The List were a senator and a district court judge.
    — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
  • The bond size is greater than the judgment because the district court generally requires a party to post 110% of the bond.
    — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The inaction prompted the government to bring a civil collection suit in district court in 2015.
    — Robert Goulder, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
  • By late 2019, Netanyahu’s political allies were also seeking to fight his indictment on corruption charges, which led to the opening of a trial against him in a Jerusalem district court the following year.
    — Dahlia Scheindlin, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2024

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