How to Use federal district court in a Sentence

federal district court

noun
  • Last year, a federal district court judge struck down the new law.
    — Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
  • He will be sentenced at a later date by a federal district court judge.
    — Hannah Brock, USA TODAY, 7 July 2022
  • Chisholm will be sentenced at a later date by a federal district court judge.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
  • 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 court sent the case back to a federal district court for further proceedings.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 July 2021
  • The court found the plaintiffs lacked legal standing and sent the case back to federal district court.
    — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2018
  • Last summer, a federal district court sided with Yehia and tossed the case.
    — Nick Sibilla, Forbes, 24 July 2022
  • The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in Seattle.
    — Nicholas K. Geranios, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The case will now be sent back down to a federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia.
    — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 6 Dec. 2017
  • Last month, a federal district court judge in Brooklyn dismissed the lawsuit.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The sentences were handed down in federal district court in Madison.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2020
  • The settlement still needs to be approved by a federal district court judge in Georgia.
    — Christopher Magan, Twin Cities, 22 July 2019
  • The federal district court dismissed the suit, and the court of appeals affirmed the decision.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 1 May 2018
  • 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
  • The case was filed in federal district court in the Northern District of Texas.
    — Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2018
  • 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
  • His uncle, Theodore Levin, was chief judge of the federal district court in Detroit.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • Catholic Social Services asked the lower courts to block the move by the city, but the federal district court refused.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2020
  • 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 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 13 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
  • The suit against the company was filed in federal district court here by Philip Marsteller and Robert Swisher.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 25 Sep. 2021
  • In June 2018, the federal district court judge said the courts aren’t the place to deal with an issue as far-reaching as climate change.
    — Josh Siegel, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2020
  • Now on the federal district court in Minnesota, Judge Schiltz confirmed the anecdote.
    — James V. Grimaldi, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 2 Aug. 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
  • The settlement must still be approved by the federal district court in the Northern District of Georgia.
    — oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019

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