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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 Supreme Court decision affirmed the three-judge court’s decision of last year and sent the case back to the district court.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], 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
• He was re-elected in 2020 to his second term as district court judge.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Feb. 2022
• That was enough to convince the Colorado district court judge who initially heard the case.
  — Nicholas Riccardi, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Friday was the deadline set by the three-judge district court for the Legislature to pass a new map.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2023
• After a district court judge refused to dismiss the case last year, the state asked the Utah Supreme Court to intervene.
  — Emily Anderson Stern, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2023
• Boudreaux is appealing his case to the local district court.
  — Samantha Sunne, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• The district court judge who enjoined the six-month ban allowed the rulemaking process on the new law to move forward.
  — Annie Gowen, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2024
• The district court could still strike down Biden’s policy.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 1 July 2022
• The brief asserts that the district court’s decision from 2021 should be upheld.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• Whatever the Supreme Court does will have to be taken up by the court of appeals and may go all the way back to the district court down in Mobile.
  — al, 18 Jan. 2022
• At least one district court has upheld the law since the Bruen decision.
  — Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
• That decree is being overseen by a district court judge and is still ongoing.
  — Ana Rocío Álvarez Bríñez, The Courier-Journal, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Jan 2025