district court

noun

: a trial court that has jurisdiction over certain cases within a specific judicial district

Examples of district court in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

An Oklahoma district court judge is set to hear the beginning of the criminal case against former Gateway Church lead pastor Robert Morris on Thursday morning. —Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2025

After a district court denied them relief, their case quickly escalated to the Supreme Court, which temporarily blocked the removals and ordered the Fifth Circuit to determine whether the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction was warranted. —Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025

In April, Chief Justice John Roberts stayed two district court rulings in unrelated cases that had blocked Trump from removing officials at the National Labor Relations Board and the Merit Systems Protection Board. —Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025

The Northern Indiana district court agreed in a preliminary injunction, which the state then appealed. —Cate Charron, IndyStar, 2 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1789, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for district court

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Legal Definition

district court

noun

often capitalized D&C

: a trial court having general or limited jurisdiction in a judicial district: as

a

: one of the federal trial courts sitting in a federal district

b

: a trial court within a state court system