district court

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district court

n. Law

1. The lowest level US federal court, operating within a federal judicial district within a state, where matters under federal jurisdiction are tried.

2. A state court having jurisdiction over matters established by state law, whether as a trial court or an appellate court within a certain district.

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district court

1. (Law) (in Scotland) a court of summary jurisdiction held by a stipendiary magistrate or one or more justices of the peace to deal with minor criminal offences

2. (Law) (in the US)

a. a federal trial court serving a federal judicial district

b. (in some states) a court having general jurisdiction in a state judicial district

3. (Law) (in Australia and New Zealand) a court lower than a high court. Former name: magistrates' court

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

dis′trict court′

the federal trial court sitting in each district of the United States.

[1780–90, Amer.]

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Simmons, clerk of the county and district courts, was in town yesterday," the new form put it thus: "Clerk of the County and District Courts Simmons was in town yesterday." This saves neither time nor ink, and has an awkward sound besides.

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the court of appeals and divests the district court of its control over

district court of the ability to communicate any views that bear upon

that the district court's views on the case are invariably set in

Power, protocol, and practicality: communications from the district court during an appeal

The Western District Court, however, ruled the payments were FICA wages since they had been made because of the teachers' employment relationship with the school district and would have been received by the taxpayers had they continued teaching.

The Sixth Circuit also agreed with the Western District Court that it could not distinguish tenure rights from any other rights an employee might earn while working, such as seniority rights or litigation rights.

When are wages not FICA wages?

Employing the services-comparison standard, the district court properly determined that L failed to meet the 50% floor-space test.

The district court's grant of summary judgment is affirmed.

REFLECTIONS: In a prior appeal of the same case, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court's determination that the truckstops failed to meet the gross-revenues test for treatment as a retail motor fuels outlet (Iowa 80 Group, Inc., 347 F3d 1067 (8th Cir.

Truckstops fail floor-space test for 15-year recovery period

The government has planned to relocate the district courts (West) to the building presently housing the IHC in Sector G-10/1, as somewhere in the middle of the current year, new building of the IHC, currently under construction in Sector G-5, will be completed at a cost of Rs2.6 billion over an area of 5 acres.

For judicial purposes, as a rule of thumb, all CDA sectors and areas adjacent come under the territorial jurisdiction of district courts (West), while rural areas of the ICT and adjacent areas come under the territorial jurisdiction of district courts (East).

Another lawyer at Islamabad District Courts, Zahid Asif Advocate, said that District Bar Association (DBA) and Islamabad High Court Bar Association (IHCBA) had passed resolutions demanding that both branches of the district courts should be constructed in one judicial complex.