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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
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
Judge David Alan Ezra, of the Federal District Court in Austin, blocked the law, saying it would have a chilling effect on speech protected by the First Amendment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Aragua has a short coast-line on the Caribbean west of the Federal District, but has no port of consequence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
He lost before a federal district judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The 77-year-old veteran diplomat is expected to enter the guilty plea at a hearing in federal district court in Maryland on June 26, CNN and other outlets said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
A federal district judge on Friday rejected conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s bid to shield Infowars from liquidation, upholding a bankruptcy court ruling that the assets aren’t protected by his personal bankruptcy estate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Lawsuits challenging the orders arrived quickly in the D.C. federal district court.
From Slate ● May 15, 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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