Federal District

noun

1. a district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.

federal district

noun

1. an area used as the seat of central government in a federal system

Example Sentences

Sean “Diddy” Combs has officially launched a bid to overturn his conviction and four-year prison sentence, filing a notice of appeal to the Federal District Court in New York on Monday.

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A federal district court judge in Northern California on Wednesday granted an emergency order to temporarily pause the mass layoffs that occurred throughout the federal government.

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And it has done so while, at the same time, calling into question the power and propriety of individual federal district judges blocking federal policies—a power constitutional conservatives regularly invoked, to great success, during the Biden administration.

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The Constitution, this Court has said, does not require these civil-penalty claims belonging to the Government to be tried before a jury in federal district court.

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We did not have federal district and appeals courts that were willing to repeatedly rule against the administration, as today’s lower and middle-level federal courts have done.

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