Federal District
noun
a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
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federal districtnounan area used as the seat of central government in a federal system
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Both the closure and the renaming were halted in a May ruling by Federal District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper who is still overseeing the legal back-and-forth over the center’s fate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Federal District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said she would decide by Wednesday whether to issue a restraining order.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
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 Grace Dunlop Peter
But in July 2023, the federal district court dismissed his complaint, reasoning that Salazar didn’t count as a “consumer” under the statute because he was only subscribed to a newsletter, “not audio visual content.”
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
A separate group of lawsuits filed in federal district court in Philadelphia around the same time also allege that Novo and Lilly’s GLP-1 drugs caused NAION, and that the companies failed to adequately warn patients.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The bankruptcy filing was made in the federal district court of New Jersey, where LIV Golf set up a subsidiary earlier in the summer.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
A federal district judge, rejecting that contract provision, ruled last month that GEO Group must let health inspectors in, writing that “GEO’s new contract cannot preempt state law, even if it purports to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
After court battles stretching back to 1954, a federal district judge in 1970 issued a desegregation plan for the city.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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