federal court
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of federal court
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
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The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in a San Francisco federal court, accuses Anthropic of engaging in “copyright infringement at a scale never seen before.”
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
A verdict there is expected soon, and any appeal will inevitably land in federal court, and raise similar questions about free speech.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
The plaintiffs’ lawyers noted in their filing that at least a half dozen suits currently pending in federal court in San Francisco related to musical compositions being improperly used to train artificial intelligence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2026
The union that represents horse-carriage workers said it would sue in federal court if the ban becomes law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
In 1987 he filed a lawsuit in federal court to halt Axel’s research on the grounds that it violated the 1975 National Environmental Policy Act, because it had never been proven environmentally safe.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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