high court

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Recent Examples of high court Among the typical parsing of medical malpractice provisions, oil and gas leases, divorce settlements and sovereign immunity protections, the high court has a number of more attention-grabbing cases on its docket this year. Eleanor Klibanoff, Austin American-Statesman, 30 Dec. 2024 TikTok is represented before the high court by Noel Francisco, who served as solicitor general during Trump's first term. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 18 Dec. 2024 The nonprofit regularly brings religion cases before the high court and has won eight cases since 2012. Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 13 Dec. 2024 The high court has ruled twice that the rule can remain in place in the meantime. Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for high court 
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  • The last election for a spot on the Wisconsin Supreme Court – which took place in 2023 and also determined its partisan tilt — shattered fundraising records for a state supreme court election.
    Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The Oklahoma Charter School Board has filed a petition with the Supreme Court to have the state supreme court decision overturned, asking the justices to decide two main points.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
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  • Trump on Tuesday appealed to the Appellate Division of New York's trial court, seeking to halt the proceedings still set to move forward on Friday.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • His initial appearance in New York’s state trial court was preempted by federal prosecutors bringing their own charges over the shooting.
    Michael R. Sisak and Jake Offenhartz, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
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  • In a ruling published on Thursday, the Chalons-en-Champagne administrative tribunal ordered the prefecture to reconsider the application to keep the animal and ordered the state to pay €1,500 ($1,545) in damages to the hog’s owner.
    Reuters, CNN, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The tribunal accepted Sinner’s version of events as outlined above and, as such, ruled that he should not be banned but should lose his prize money, results and ranking points from Indian Wells.
    Charlie Eccleshare, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025

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