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high court

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as in supreme court

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Recent Examples of high court The high court late Wednesday declined to intervene, without comment, clearing the way for the execution. — Jamie Stengle, Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2026 The high court will decide whether the Second and 14th amendments protect the right to possess semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15. — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2026 In its legal filing, the NFL asked the high court to decide whether states or the federal government should regulate prediction markets before the end of the pro football season in January. — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 The high court’s conservative majority said Fields’ district was unconstitutional. — Gary Fields, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for high court

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The negotiations are focused on rebuilding institutions, including Venezuela’s supreme court and electoral commission, to underpin free and fair elections.

— Helena Carpio, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2026
In the heated news coverage of what’s at stake in the 2026 midterms, state supreme court races are drawing relatively little attention.

— Rachel Rebouché, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of supreme court

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In Ben Gamla, though, the trial court judge relied on federal case law.

— Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
The trial court will need to decide whether the university was legally justified in concealing and redacting certain documents and whether Abraham qualifies for attorneys' fees.

— Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 22 Sep. 2026

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After the Nuremberg tribunal, the top Nazi leadership were rightly hanged for their crimes, yet even these were not open for public viewing, because that is savagery.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 14 Oct. 2026
In Canada, when an Air Canada chatbot invented a bereavement-fare policy, the airline argued the bot was a separate entity responsible for its own actions; the tribunal called the submission remarkable and made the airline pay.

— Michael Riedl, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026

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