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Examples
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In 2008, a federal district-court judge in Detroit upheld the law, finding it was race-neutral.
Court Tosses Affirmative-Action Ban Matthew Dolan 2011
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The appeals court Monday also refused to reinstate a stay of a preliminary injunction that was granted to the e-cigarette distributors by a U.S. district-court judge in January 2010.
E-Cigarette Industry Wins Federal Court Victory David Kesmodel 2011
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A district-court judge earlier found that the deviations—while not significant—could violate the constitutional rights of inmates.
Ohio Gives Execution Procedures a New Look Steve Eder 2012
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Even before a district-court judge could hear their case, community activists demanding that a new trauma center be built on Manhattan's Lower West Side dropped their legal protest to the sale of the former St. Vincent's Hospital's main campus, court papers show.
Group Drops Court Bid to Reopen Hospital Eric Morath 2011
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Monday's injunction follows last year's decision by a federal district-court judge in Kentucky who largely ruled in the government's favor on constitutional grounds.
Judge Temporarily Blocks Graphic Cigarette Labels Mike Esterl 2011
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Late in the discussion, a student asked the panel to compare clerking at the district-court (or trial-court) level and clerking at the appellate level.
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Liberty lost at the district-court level and ran into more trouble with the appellate panel.
Judges Test Health Law's Foes Janet Adamy 2011
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Even before a district-court judge could hear their case, community activists demanding that a new trauma center be built on Manhattan's Lower West Side dropped their legal protest to the sale of the former St. Vincent's Hospital's main campus, court papers show.
Group Drops Court Bid to Reopen Hospital Eric Morath 2011
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The majority of the professors from the top law schools come from the same mold -- graduation from a top law school, a clerkship on the district-court, appellate-court, or, in some cases, the U.S.
Discourse.net: Patricia D. White to Be Dean of University of Miami School of Law 2009
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Late in the discussion, a student asked the panel to compare clerking at the district-court (or trial-court) level and clerking at the appellate level.
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