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 May 2019, the district court sided with the clinic and struck down the law.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2021
• The law has been blocked since a district court judge struck down the measure in 2019.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2021
• 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
• Dorr won on appeal, and then the case went to district court.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 24 June 2021
• After the Supreme Court sends the case back to district court; the case is dismissed.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 26 Apr. 2021
• The court case could go to trail in a state district court later this year.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 July 2025
• 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
• Two of the three judges on the district court panel were Trump appointees.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 9 Feb. 2022
• In Kentucky, a district court judge was among the dead, the state’s chief justice said.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The 39-page opinion of the district court doesn't even reference any of that.
  — CBS News, 20 Apr. 2025
• In state district court, Vladeck said, there isn’t a direct road to having the law thrown out.
  — Dallas News, 13 Sep. 2021
• 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
• The case has been sent back to the district court for further proceedings.
  — Maya Miller, ProPublica, 31 Dec. 2024
• The district court granted that motion and dismissed that case the same day.
  — Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 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 high court remanded the case to the district court in San Francisco where it was filed.
  — Rafael Carranza, The Arizona Republic, 31 Aug. 2021
• Both the district court and the court of appeals ruled in favor of Levy and against the school, prompting the school district to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 28 Apr. 2021
• 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
• The district court held that Spicer was an employee and that payment to him were wages.
  — Brian Thompson, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• While the government has only had success 31% of the time in court overall, that number shoots up to 76% when a Trump judge has ruled on the case, whether alone as a district court judge or as part of a panel of appeals court judges.
  — Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 9 July 2025
• The district court decision was later appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which reversed the lower court's decision.
  — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025