How to Use district court in a Sentence

district court

noun
  • 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 May 2019, the district court sided with the clinic and struck down the law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
  • The law has been blocked since a district court judge struck down the measure in 2019.
    — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • 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
  • Dorr won on appeal, and then the case went to district court.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2021
  • After the Supreme Court sends the case back to district court; the case is dismissed.
    — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Two of the three judges on the district court panel were Trump appointees.
    — Tribune News Service, al, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • The 39-page opinion of the district court doesn't even reference any of that.
    — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
  • In state district court, Vladeck said, there isn’t a direct road to having the law thrown out.
    — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • The case has been sent back to the district court for further proceedings.
    — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The district court granted that motion and dismissed that case the same day.
    — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 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 high court remanded the case to the district court in San Francisco where it was filed.
    — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
  • Both the district court and the court of appeals ruled in favor of Levy and against the school, prompting the school district to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • The only real path to blocking the law runs through the district court, Hearron said.
    — Eleanor Klibanoff, San Antonio Express-News, 6 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • The relevant question is thus whether a district court judge should be able to issue injunctions that reach into other federal districts.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 27 June 2025
  • Thanks to the Supreme Court's order from May of 2024, which put the district court's injunction on hold, the fair and legal map the Louisiana legislature enacted in response to our litigation remains in place while the case continues next year.
    — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 June 2025

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