federal district

noun

: a district set apart as the seat of the central government of a federation

Examples of federal district in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In addition to challenging the constitutionality of the law, the families asked a federal district court to block enforcement of the law while their case proceeds. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2024 Boeing has been reaching confidential settlements with the families of passengers who died, but the relatives of those killed in the Ethiopia crash are continuing to press the Justice Department to prosecute the company in federal district court in Texas, where the settlement was filed. David Koenig, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2024 The labor law case stems from Starbucks’s challenge to a federal district court’s 2022 decision ordering the company to rehire seven baristas who claimed they were fired for attempting to unionize at a Memphis store. Nik Popli, TIME, 23 Apr. 2024 Three separate federal district judges have blocked efforts to ban TikTok — two courts during the Trump administration, and one more recently in Montana. Bobby Allyn, NPR, 22 Apr. 2024 Recognizing that the three federal district court decisions were favorable to the government, the IRS nevertheless maintained that those decisions were incorrectly decided. Matthew Roberts, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 While a complaint over the mass dismissal was pending with the NLRB, Kathleen McKinney, the NLRB director for the region that includes Memphis, sought an injunction in a federal district court to force Starbucks to give the Memphis 7 their jobs back while the case proceeded. Michael Z. Green, The Conversation, 11 Apr. 2024 Mizuhara will appear in federal district court sometime in the next few days, officials said during the news conference. Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 11 Apr. 2024 Brought in federal district court in Texas, the groups, led by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, challenged the FDA's initial 2000 approval and its more recent changes in 2016 and 2021. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1934, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of federal district was circa 1934

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“Federal district.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/federal%20district. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.

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