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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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
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
“Yes, it has twenty-seven states, besides the Federal District and the Territory of Lower California.”
From Nan Sherwood on the Mexican Border by Annie Roe Carr
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
Its parent company, Take-Two Interactive, immediately launched a thorough investigation, filing multiple subpoena requests in federal district court seeking information on the leakers from Microsoft, Discord, X and YouTube.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
A federal district judge stymied the Justice Department’s attempt to investigate former Fed Chair Jerome Powell, throwing out subpoenas that were part of a probe into his congressional testimony about the central bank’s building-renovation project.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
He lost before a federal district judge and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 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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