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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
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
Every week, a few more rioters are arrested and charges against them are unsealed in Federal District Court in Washington.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2024
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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