How to Use district court in a Sentence

district court

noun

• The law was in effect for just a few days before a district court judge temporarily blocked it.
  — Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 July 2024
• The county jail has been at the center of Dallas County tension between the felony district court judges and commissioners.
  — Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2022
• As a district court judge, Dearie already has security clearance to view classified materials.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2022
• Fields had an initial appearance with a district court commissioner and was released on her own recognizance, according to the sheriff’s office.
  — Tony Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 21 Sep. 2022
• If the district court judge or Utah Supreme Court chooses the latter, Reyes could face a formal condemnation or have his law license revoked.
  — Jacob Scholl, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Sep. 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
• And Google will appeal, too, when the district court case is all said and done.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
• 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
• Brown could contest the races and let a district court judge decide.
  — Dallas News, 4 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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 brief asserts that the district court’s decision from 2021 should be upheld.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 31 July 2023
• 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
• The Supreme Court also considered the case in 2021 but remanded it back to district court.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• The district court that first heard this suit already ruled that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s conduct.
  — Rachel Weiner, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
• The bond size is greater than the judgment because the district court generally requires a party to post 110% of the bond.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• Devin Smith, 30, was sentenced by a Tarrant County district court judge to 31 years in prison.
  — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 May 2024
• The Biden administration tried to toss the rule out, but a district court judge in Texas wouldn’t allow that.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2022
• The high court's decision allows the suit to continue in district court.
  — Olivia Osteen, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Following three days of testimony, the jury in a Tucson district court found Ridenour guilty on all six counts, including arson and hate crimes for his actions in May 2023.
  — Lux Butler, The Arizona Republic, 12 July 2024
• The case will be moved to a different district court ahead of this hearing to avoid conflict of interest, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Sep 2024