Federal District
Americannoun
noun
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On Tuesday, 250 years after that ride, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco raised a similar ruckus without ever leaving the bench.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
As the Federal District Court in Maryland explained eight years ago, a “federal court may … issue preservation orders as part of its inherent authority to manage its own proceedings.”
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025
Federal District Judge James E. Basberg ordered the participants of that chat to save the exchange in its entirety and to turn over their records of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
Judge Aileen Cannon, who is overseeing the case in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., has only dealt with two of Trump’s motions to dismiss so far, denying both of them.
From New York Times • Jun. 6, 2024
The question of size of the Federal District had been settled by the Constitution—it was to be ten miles square.
From A Portrait of Old George Town by Peter, Grace Dunlop
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