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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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But the editorial boards of both the Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel have continued to watch this supreme court for the past six years.

— Scott Maxwell, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2026
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

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Those named in the report petitioned a trial court to prevent its publication, and the court partially agreed, allowing some redactions to be made public.

— CBS Miami Team, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2026
The Ohio Supreme Court this week stayed the appellate court’s mandate, meaning that, for now, the trial court’s order is back in effect.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 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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