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
Federal District
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federal district
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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
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 Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
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
In a series of decisions last month, federal district judges in Boston have ruled against these executive orders, for now.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
“That put us back in federal district courts,” White noted.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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