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district

[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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In this case, the government had to overcome the district court’s factual findings about the unfairness of the rule.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

The district court also found that the rule exceeded USPS’s authority to issue.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

New York City is the nation’s largest school district, serving about a million students, and the City Council serves as a key oversight body for the city’s Department of Education and its budget.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Valadao, 49, who comes from a dairy farming family, is well known in the district and has repeatedly secured victory in close races, retaking the seat in 2020 after losing it in 2018’s blue wave.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The district court ruled that the evidence presented was sufficient to justify discovery for the purposes of determining whether the allegations of selective enforcement were valid.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Tony Thurmond, represented the California Department of Education at a recent event held by the statewide LGBTQ+ group Equality California, where school districts were rated on their LGBTQ+ policies and resources.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Already, some school districts are on high alert.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Jamal Al-Mashraqi, an official overseeing work in Hodeida province's displacement camps, said the violence had pushed about 7,500 people to seek refuge in the Hays and Khokha districts alone.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

Texas enacted a law last year requiring school districts to stock at least one such device on each campus with at least one employee trained to use it.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

After setding on the best school districts, he said, “we looked within price points.”

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times

“Plaintiffs’ novel proposal is that we dismantle Georgia’s statewide PSC system and replace it with an entirely new districted system,” the court wrote.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

As school districted switched to distance learning in March, the nonprofit Partnership for Connecticut spent $24 million to provide 60,000 laptops to high school students.

From Washington Times Dec. 2, 2020

Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

Less important but still a concern: Only one of our daughter’s friends from day care will attend the school that we are districted for.

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

I commenced my part of the labors at once, employing three persons to assist me, and we districted Culpepper, so that no one should interfere with the grounds of the other.

From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

The justices further acknowledged the emergence of robust two-party competition and the increasing sophistication of computer-generated districting maps.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

In 1986, the court articulated a test for determining when election districting is racially discriminatory.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2023

“A districting plan must comply with the broader constitutional standard of upholding the right to vote on equal terms and to substantially equal voting power,” Associate Justice Robin Hudson wrote in the prevailing opinion.

From Washington Times Dec. 16, 2022

“I see the argument on the other side — a state interest in independent districting commissions. But as I read this, it is about districting in Los Angeles,” Chemerinsky said via email.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2022

Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler




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