How to Use high court in a Sentence

high court

noun
  • But the high court didn't rule on the merits of the case.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • If the high court strikes down Biden's plan, what next?
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • That lawsuit went to the high court, which upheld the law in 2021.
    Stephanie Armour, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The case was appealed again and will now be heard in the high court.
    Devika Rao, The Week, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Those concerns were not enough to sway the state’s high court.
    Jenna Russell, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The high court is expected to take up the case in March or April.
    Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2024
  • The high court has ruled twice that the rule can remain in place in the meantime.
    Dareh Gregorian, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The high court had blocked the law from taking effect by a 5-4 vote.
    David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • She is set to become the first Black woman to serve on the high court.
    Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2022
  • This would be the first major gun rights case heard by the high court in many years.
    Shannon Bream, Fox News, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The appeal sought for the high court to order Judge Hall to dismiss the case.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 10 Feb. 2023
  • With the appointment of Barrett, Catholics hold six of the nine seats on the high court.
    Rick Rouan, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The polls also showed that support for the high court is on the decline.
    Rylee Wilson, Dallas News, 29 June 2022
  • With Brunner’s win, Democrats had won three of the last four seats up for grabs on the high court since 2018.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Roberts was, at the time, four years into what is now a 17-year tenure on the high court.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The public's esteem of the high court is at an all time low and the media is not to blame.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The high court has not yet issued its decision in the case.
    Emma Bubola, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • From time to time, there have been demands for reform of the high court, Graber said.
    Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024
  • The high court in May agreed to hear the case over Mississippi's ban.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Fischer asked the state’s high court to review the case.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The high court declined the request, leaving the matter with the appeals court.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 7 Feb. 2024
  • A decade later, the Sacketts are back before the high court.
    Time, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Barrett on Sunday argued that's not the right way to look at the high court.
    Peter Weber, The Week, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The high court could agree to hear the case, or let the lower court's ruling stand as the final word on the issue.
    Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • So the high court may expand on those in the future, Seamon said.
    Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 7 Feb. 2025
  • Backers of the reforms have long accused the high court of overreach and elitism.
    Hadas Gold, CNN, 20 Jan. 2023
  • In an unsigned decision, the state’s high court held that the group Ohio Stands Up!
    Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2021
  • In short: The idea of ethics reform for the high court has penetrated the zeitgeist.
    Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • This is the latest in a string of such attempts over the past two decades, all of which the state’s high court declined to consider.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The high court turned away recent challenges to other gun control bills — including a weapons ban and a permitting requirement — and lower courts have upheld the laws in other states, Willinger and Shih said.
    Seth Klamann, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2025

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