How to Use federal district court in a Sentence

federal district court

noun
  • The charges were filed last week in a federal district court in New York.
    Amara Omeokwe, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Planning for the sale got back on track after a federal district court judge struck down the pause.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2022
  • The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in Seattle.
    Nicholas K. Geranios, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The court sent the case back to a federal district court for further proceedings.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 July 2021
  • Last summer, a federal district court sided with Yehia and tossed the case.
    Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • The suit against the company was filed in federal district court here by Philip Marsteller and Robert Swisher.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 25 Sep. 2021
  • His uncle, Theodore Levin, was chief judge of the federal district court in Detroit.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Previously, the 51-year-old judge served on the federal district court in DC.
    Ariane De Vogue and Tierney Sneed, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • He will be sentenced at a later date by a federal district court judge.
    Hannah Brock, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
  • Last month a federal district court dismissed the case, but according to Holcomb the fight isn’t over yet.
    Teny Sahakian, Fox News, 27 May 2021
  • Chisholm will be sentenced at a later date by a federal district court judge.
    Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
  • The appellate judges sent the case back down to the federal district court, which had ruled against Malamud, with instructions to think again.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The case is pending in federal district court in Boston.
    USA TODAY, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The program came before the Supreme Court once before, last year, after a federal district court in Texas sided with the states.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In March 2020, a federal district court disagreed, finding the paper didn’t use the phrase in a trademark manner and dismissed the case.
    Caroline Aiken Koster, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Two members of a three-judge panel for the Eleventh Circuit voted to reverse the lower court and send the lawsuit back to the federal district court.
    Ashley Remkus | Aremkus@al.com, al, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Much of the suit was dismissed by a federal district court, and the professor has since appealed the decision.
    Douglas Belkin and Melissa Korn, WSJ, 20 May 2022
  • The federal commission in June declined to strike down the fee, but said the plaintiffs could take their case to federal district court.
    Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 13 July 2021
  • The panel of appeals judges sent the case back to a federal district court judge and instructed him to allow the state law to take effect, which could take days or weeks.
    Mike Esterl, ajc, 20 July 2022
  • Last month, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn dismissed the lawsuit.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The Hawkins case was one of the first to come before Jackson after she was confirmed by the Senate as a federal district court judge in Washington in 2013.
    Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The one page document, filed last Friday in the federal district court in Maryland, does not indicate where the lewd act occurred on the flight.
    NBC News, 6 Apr. 2021
  • Last fall, a federal district court judge also sided with UNC.
    Laura Krantz, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2022
  • Judge Friedrich, who presides in the D.C. federal district court, held an emergency hearing Monday to weigh whether the new eviction ban should be blocked.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Rhodes has pleaded not guilty to his charges and is set to go to trial later this year, with proceedings in the federal district court in Washington, DC.
    Katelyn Polantz, CNN, 26 Jan. 2022
  • While a federal district court judge upheld that plan, which the district is no longer using, the case remains under appeal.
    James Vaznis, BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2022
  • Judge David Counts, who serves as a federal district court judge in Texas, ultimately sided with him.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Cooley was indicted in federal district court on drug and gun charges, but moved to have the drug evidence suppressed.
    Brooke Newman, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2021
  • There are 35 Black female federal district court judges, according to the center's data, just more than 5% of the total number of judges.
    John Fritze, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2021
  • The case, currently in a federal district court in California, is likely to reach the Supreme Court on appeal.
    Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2022

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