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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• Aaron and Tiffany James’ lawsuit remains in district court.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 June 2022
• Included on The List were a senator and a district court judge.
  — Thomas Brewster, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• 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
• The county's circuit and district courts and Office of Circuit Court Clerk all closed and no court filings were accepted for the day.
  — Rachel Smith, The Courier-Journal, 14 Oct. 2024
• Texas is asking the court to strike down the program and send it back to district court so it can be dismantled nationwide over a short period and not all at once.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024