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 Sentencing is scheduled for June 3 in federal district court in San Diego. Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024 The 54-page indictment filed in federal district court in Houston was unsealed Friday and charges Cuellar with 14 counts including conspiracy, bribery, and money laundering. Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 3 May 2024 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

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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 10 May. 2024.

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