How to Use supreme court in a Sentence

supreme court

noun
  • The maps were later thrown out by the state supreme court.
    cleveland, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The state supreme court ruled that the embryos fell within the statute.
    The Editors, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The state’s supreme court just ended union time on your dime.
    Jon Riches, National Review, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The case is now with the state supreme court, which has not decided whether to hear the case.
    Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Activists said that this went against the supreme court’s judgement in 2014.
    Vijayta Lalwani, Quartz India, 27 Nov. 2019
  • In at least two states, the sons of powerful state politicians sit on the supreme court.
    Noah Pransky, ProPublica, 16 July 2024
  • India’s supreme court made a bold move today in favour of free speech.
    Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 10 May 2022
  • Before the six-week ban, the house had passed a 15-week ban that went through legal challenges up to the state supreme court.
    Kinsey Crowley, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2024
  • Eighty supreme court seats in 33 states will be on the ballot in November.
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The state’s supreme court had to step in and appoint outside consultants to draw a map.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The decision can be appealed only to the state supreme court.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The supreme court shall have 7 members who shall be known as justices of thesupreme court.
    Jack Kelly and Matthew Defour, Journal Sentinel, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The families appealed that dismissal and the case is now before the state supreme court.
    Amy Yurkanin | Ayurkanin@al.com, al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, however, Democrats trimmed the GOP advantage on the state supreme court to 4-3.
    Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2021
  • The law will likely face an appeal in Israel's supreme court.
    Abbas Al Lawati and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 14 Mar. 2022
  • There’s a state supreme court, a state legislature, all of those things.
    How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
  • State supreme court justices are poised to play a decisive role in the 2024 election.
    USA Today, 24 July 2023
  • In this case, following the law on the books would mean overturning the state supreme court’s ruling.
    Ronn Blitzer, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The brothers asked Italy’s supreme court to intervene, and that court also ruled against them.
    Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The state's supreme court would have the ultimate say in litigation to do so.
    Shawna Mizelle, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The only caveat in the court’s ruling is that Roberts imposed a guardrail of sorts on state supreme courts in future cases.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • If the vice-president also dies, the head of the lower house of congress takes over, followed by the head of the upper house, and the chief judge of the supreme court.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Donnelly, 58, is running for a second six-year term on the supreme court.
    Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 10 Sep. 2024
  • In South Carolina, none of the five supreme court justices are women.
    Aaron Mendelson, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The decision of a state supreme court can be appealed only to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has shied away from such cases.
    David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022
  • The growing presence of cash in state supreme court races may affect which judges run for election, Gill said.
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The country's supreme court then asked the Florence court to begin a new trial to decide whether there had been slander in the note.
    Phoebe Natanson, ABC News, 5 June 2024
  • The state’s supreme court on Thursday again declined to halt the execution.
    Ashley R. Williams, CNN, 20 Sep. 2024
  • In six states, there is only one female supreme court justice.
    Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 16 May 2023
  • For as little oversight as there is regarding potential conflicts of interest on the federal bench, there’s even less for state supreme courts.
    Noah Pransky, ProPublica, 16 July 2024

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