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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
The suit brought by the Justice Department’s Civil Division against the Maryland Federal District Court judges did not hide the ball about either of those claims.
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
The 45-month sentence imposed by Judge John D. Bates at a hearing in Federal District Court in Washington was only about a third of the 140 months that the government had initially requested.
From New York Times • May 17, 2024
It was not until 1854, however, that public schools were organized in the Federal District, and these mark the real beginning of state education in Brazil.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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