district
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Otherwise, to challenge it, you’d literally need to bring lawsuits in all 96 federal district courts.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Few organizations had imagined the destruction of an entire financial district, the loss of personnel, technology, communications and records, and the need to preserve public confidence while much of the city’s infrastructure had ceased functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lebanese media reported fresh Israeli strikes elsewhere in the south on Thursday, including Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Mansouri in the Tyre district.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
The fire started near a school in the Bagira district on the city's northern outskirts early on Thursday "while the children were in the middle of class", local leader Patrice Buduge told AFP.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
“Proud of you? You applied to transfer to a school in her district and you didn’t tell me. That’s called lying, Lexie.”
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
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It leaves instruction to districts and teachers, with optional discussion prompts for 10th grade world history and senior-year American democracy classes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Numerous lawmakers in competitive races chose to remain in their districts rather than spend valuable campaign time in Dallas, while both convention nights were facing competition from the opening games of the NFL season.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 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
The deputy federal public defenders said a defense analysis identified invalid service as acting or de facto U.S. attorneys in at least 16 districts across the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
After setding on the best school districts, he said, “we looked within price points.”
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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“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
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
Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 2020
This number remained until 1868, when, by the annexation of additional territory, a re-division was necessitated, and the city districted into fifteen wards.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
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
“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
The districting committee will host four virtual town hall meetings to collect public input on the proposed maps before voting on a final draft.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2021
“On motion, Messrs. Gray, Dougherty, and Beers were appointed a committee on districting the Territory into not to exceed five districts.”
From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by William Henry Gray
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