high court

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Recent Examples of high court The state's high court also rejected four lawsuits aimed at throwing out the results of that election. Daniel Bice, jsonline.com, 15 July 2025 On the education front, the high court has previously allowed cuts in teacher-training grants to go forward. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 15 July 2025 The high court granted a request from the Trump administration to lift for now the injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Myong Joun, which blocked the mass layoffs at the Education Department. July 14, CBS News, 14 July 2025 Last week, the nation's high court lifted a preliminary injunction to let Trump move forward with an executive order mandating a restructure of federal agencies and mass layoffs of federal workers. ABC News, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for high court
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Noun
  • These are just some of the hundreds of civilian opposition actors to face military courts in Uganda, even though the country’s supreme court has ruled it unconstitutional.
    Elizabeth Shackelford, Twin Cities, 20 June 2025
  • The nonprofit says that the previous record for spending in a state supreme court race was in Wisconsin's 2023 state supreme court election, when $56 million was spent.
    Oren Oppenheim, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The court found, as did the trial court, that even without the confession prosecutors had enough other evidence to support the guilty verdict.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 8 July 2025
  • McKay, convicted in 1982 of felony murder, had filed with the Memphis trial court a petition to present new facts or evidence that were not presented at his trial.
    Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • An international tribunal ended its work in 2022, holding just three senior Khmer Rouge members accountable for the regime's crimes.
    James Doubek, NPR, 18 July 2025
  • Kyiv has long advocated for a tribunal that goes beyond war crimes to hold top Russian leaders accountable for launching the invasion.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025

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